an agreement between two or more organizations to cooperate in a specific business activity, so that each benefits from the strengths of the other, and...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers' LEH executives, seeking to shore up the brokerage's share price, is mulling options including a strategic alliance with a partner, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The investment bank is also considering a form of share...
Patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks often compose as much as 85% of a corporation's economic value. Because product lifecycles have shortened as technology advances ever more rapidly, businesses frequently look to partnerships, joint-ventures, and other alliances to speed development of intellectual properties. But such arrangements should be entered into...
Strategic alliances have become an important part of London, Birmingham, Manchester most company's portfolios. In an era of rapid technological change, the ever rapidly changing competitive landscape, and the globalization of competition more and more companies are choosing to participate in alliances. Often the decision to participate in alliances is...
Whether you’re looking to share risk, resources, or expertise, a strategic partner might be exactly what your company needs to grow and develop in ways that it couldn’t on its own. The Three Stages of Strategic Alliances Source: Harvard Knowledgebase ...
Use this template to give offer of strategic alliance. This letter is from your business to another business suggesting that you work together to reach goals. It should offer teamwork, not dominance by one company or the other.
Use this template as a follow up letter which follows the first strategic alliance letter, assuming you've received no response to the first. It should address some of the more obvious concerns a potential alliance partner may have.
Research in strategic management has illustrated the important role played by formal strategic alliances in inter-firm learning. This paper focuses on the role of individual-level inter-firm collaborations by biotechnology researchers and their impact on the patented innovative output of the firm. It is found that after controlling for other factors,...
SOA can exist without BPM, and BPM has flourished without a firm understanding of SOA. The combination of SOA and BPM is more powerful than either is alone. SOA provides the ability to create process independence. SOA, loosely coupled with BPM, automatically creates services that can be reused in many...
This paper shows how strategic alliances and their impact on future competitive incentives can motivate inter firm equity sales. In the model, an alliance between an entrepreneurial firm and an established firm improves efficiency for both. However, the requisite knowledge transfer heightens the established firm's incentive to enter one of...
The purpose of this study is to model the formation and success of innovative strategic alliances and international joint-ventures, in particular, for Korea. Especially for such high risky market entries it is argued that incorporating a suitable treatment of irreversibility, uncertainty and flexibility related to a multinational enterprise MNE entry...
Today, many biotechnology firms are using strategic alliances to contract with other companies. In this paper, the author contends that the governance structure of these alliances - specifically, the "Contractual board" - provides an integrated restraint on opportunism. While an alliance agreement's exit structure could provide a check on opportunism...
Strategic alliances are long-term contracts between legally distinct organizations that provide for sharing the costs and benefits of a mutually beneficial activity. In this paper, a model has been developed and tested that helps explain why firms sometimes prefer alliances over internally organized projects. It introduce managerial effort into a...
Rivalry between strategic alliances is investigated in a model where each alliance member maximizes its own profit and some share of its partner's profit. A complementary alliance confers a strategic advantage by allowing the partners to credibly commit to greater output, owing to both within-alliance complementarities and cross-alliance substitutability's. Although...
The field of higher education shows a jumble of alliances between fellow institutes. The alliances are strategic in kind and serve an economy-of-scales concept. A large scale is a prerequisite for allocating the budgets for new educational methods and technologies in order to keep the educational services up-to-date. All too...
The explosive growth of international strategic alliances as firm?s way to enter markets, as well as a mode to acquire new knowledge has affected the complexity of academic research about international cooperation and knowledge transfer process. Transferring knowledge among organizations involves a wide range of features. According to this statement,...
This paper conducts a detailed analysis of 125 strategic alliance contracts, all of which concern early-stage research at small, biotechnology R&D companies. Staged investment is ubiquitous, but solutions to agency problems vary. The cycle of equity participation in alliances resembles what is observed in venture capital contracts: they involve convertible...
The object of this paper is to present the reasons for why the firms choose alliances as one of the strategic options, while both invoking and amending the resource-based approach. In addition, the author would like to distill the strategic nature inherent in alliances that leads firms to actively choose...
Entrepreneurs face tremendous odds in launching and growing a successful business. This is especially true in high technology industries where new venture entrepreneurs have difficulty in obtaining financial and other resources. In order to overcome these odds, high technology entrepreneurs form strategic alliances with larger firms to obtain critical resources....
Strategic alliances are a vibrant feature of the corporate landscape, and one that has seen a surge in popularity. By creating formal partnerships, companies can quickly acquire product development capabilities and marketing expertise that would otherwise require years of effort and considerable expense. This article highlights that alliances are easy...
