ABSTRACT

Strategic alliances - voluntary, long-term collaborations between firms to achieve their objectives - are attracting increasing attention in business schools because of their growing prevalence among organizations today.

Mastering the art of managing strategic alliances allows firms to radically improve their performance and this book provides a detailed, evidence-based approach outlining the design, management, and evaluation of these alliances. Elaborating on the decision-making structures apparent during each stage in the alliance life-cycle and in elucidating cases from across the world, Strategic Alliance Management offers a systematic framework that provides insights into the development and deployment of alliances.

Concluding with the three alliance paradoxes managers must address to design and manage their alliances effectively and efficiently, this text offers a profound vision of the key decision-making rationales and processes inherently related to strategic alliances. As such, it will be required reading for students studying the subject and a valuable supplementary reading source to those studying strategic management more generally.

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chapter 1|11 pages

Strategic Alliance Management

chapter 2|18 pages

Alliance Strategy Formulation

chapter 3|14 pages

Alliance Partner Selection

chapter 4|15 pages

Alliance Negotiation

chapter 5|22 pages

Alliance Design

chapter 6|19 pages

Alliance Management

chapter 7|16 pages

Alliance Evaluation

chapter 8|14 pages

Alliance Termination

chapter 9|16 pages

Supplier Alliances

chapter 10|18 pages

Learning Alliances

chapter 11|17 pages

Co-branding Alliances

chapter 12|18 pages

International Alliances

chapter 13|14 pages

Asymmetrical Alliances

chapter 14|15 pages

Cross-sector Alliances

chapter 15|15 pages

Multi-partner Alliances

chapter 16|17 pages

Alliance Portfolios

chapter 17|17 pages

Alliance Networks

chapter 18|17 pages

Alliance Co-evolution

chapter 19|15 pages

Alliance Capabilities

chapter 20|10 pages

Strategic Alliance Management