ABSTRACT
An initial issue of interest to researchers in the field of collaborative alliances was gaining a basic understanding of the sheer dimensions of the explosion in alliance activity. One of the early efforts at database building was undertaken in Ghemewat, Porter and Rawlinson's [1986] study of the relationship between alliance demographic characteristics and alliance form. The researchers used a data set derived from public announcements in the Wall Street Journal. Morris and Hergert [1987] provided a demographic analysis of collaborative alliances using announcements published in the Financial Times, and the Economist Similarly, Ellram [1990] conducted a study of alliance activity based
