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| Author: | Hennart, J-F. |
| Title: | Alliance research: less is more |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2006 : NOV, VOL. 43.7, p. 1621-1628 |
| Index terms: | alliances co-operation literature |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Bell et al. (2006) express dissatisfaction with academic research on alliances and suggest ways in which it could be improved. According to them, literature should analyse processes by which alliances evolve, what they call the dynamics of cooperation. The author agrees that the present dynamics of cooperation literature leaves much to be desired, but that its chances of ever providing parsimonious and managerially useful theories are unlikely. Re-visiting four cases of alliance evolution that have been featured in the dynamics of cooperation literature, it is shown that concentrating instead on alliance structure, in the broad sense of the term, is likely to yield strong testable propositions and useful managerial prescriptions. |
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