Download or read book The Influence of Strategic Alliance Participation on Cost Management System Design written by Louis J. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Design of Alliance Governance Systems written by Sascha Albers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic alliances have emerged as an important element of firms' strategies. Following suit, research on alliances has blossomed, concentrating on the various forms alliances take, the reasons of their existence, and increasingly embracing questions of alliance management and governance tasks. However, most contributions which address the alliance governance problem are yet rather vague and selective in their conception of alliance governance structures as well as the factors which influence their suitability. The aim of this book is to further advance our understanding of alliance governance and to provide recommendations on the problem of alliance governance design. Following the configurational approach, Sascha Albers develops a comprehensive model of alliance governance systems. He identifies relevant structural and instrumental design parameters and analyzes major contingency factors, including member firms' cultures and alliance experience, number of alliance partners, and trust, which impact the design parameters' suitability. He finally deducts five configurations, or ideal types, of alliance governance systems which can be regarded as blueprints for the practitioner and as platform for further research for the alliance scholar. Potential readership includes scholars of strategic management and organization theory, interested students in these areas as well as practitioners involved in formulating and implementing alliance strategies.

Download or read book Managing the Partners in Strategic Alliances written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the Partners in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Managing the Partners in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 14 chapters in this volume deal with significant issues relating to the management of the partners in strategic alliances. These issues run the gamut from deterring deceitful behaviors, partner selection and control, interpartner learning, harmony, negotiation, tensions, and diversities, to partner management and alliance performance. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing the partners in strategic alliances.

Download or read book Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 10 chapters in this volume deal with significant issues relating to the management of trust in strategic alliances. These issues include the role of trust in value creation and appropriation, the dialectics of trust, control, and risk in multilateral R&D alliances, protecting trustworthiness in open and closed alliance networks, balancing trust and distrust, trust and cost disclosure, trust and control, foreign partner’s trust in international strategic alliances, a multilevel approach to trust, trust in service supply networks, and trust-building in public-private strategic alliances. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing trust in strategic alliances.

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Download or read book Strategic Alliance Management written by Brian Tjemkes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Alliance Management presents an academically grounded alliance development framework, detailing eight stages of alliance development with consideration for specific management challenges. For each stage, readers are presented with theoretical insights, evidence-based managerial guidelines and a business case illustration. Other chapters consider alliance attributes, alliance competences, and alliance challenges, and cover topics such as innovation, co-branding, co-opetition, business ecosystems, alliance professionals, alliance capabilities, societal alliances and a tension-based alliance mindset. This fully revised 3rd edition leverages the book’s strengths in marrying theory with practical insight. All the chapters have been updated to reflect the current academic literature, whilst new international case studies are incorporated throughout. Two new chapters feature in this edition, considering the importance of the mindset required to successfully navigate alliance arrangements, and emerging alliance practices, exploring how new technologies, sustainability and the external environment have disrupted alliance management. In-chapter text boxes discussing emerging themes provide opportunity for discussion and analysis. The textbook remains highly valuable core and recommended reading for postgraduate students of Strategic Management and Corporate Strategy, MBA and Executive MBA, as well as reflective practitioners in the field. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter lecture slides, two long case studies and short interviews with alliance executives.

Download or read book An Analysis of Structure and Process of Corporate Alliance Development Using System Architecture Frameworks written by Gwang Gyu Kim and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strategic alliance has been one of the core methods for expanding the business of many corporations in terms of geographic presence, business domain, and technological scope. The strategic alliance includes many different types of partnerships, including licensing in and out, joint product development, minority equity investments, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. These alliances involve many distinctive participants inside and outside a corporation and for this reason, the alliance-forging process and management tend to be quite complicated for systematic analysis. Therefore in this thesis I employ system architecture frameworks to analyze strategic alliances in a systematic way from a holistic viewpoint. I apply an object process methodology (OPM) to understand interactions among different participants during the process of forging alliances, analyze the upstream and downstream influences, and finally adopt a holistic framework to illustrate detailed interactions during the process. The alliance process basically consists of four distinctive phases: formulation, partner selection, negotiation, and management. Comparing the results with the DuPont case, I realized that the alliance management phase should be augmented for more comprehensive management. Strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions are discussed in the corporate-level context. They have many driving forces in common at the level of corporate context, but in mergers and acquisitions the economic conditions are more critical components than others during a strategy- formulation phase.

Download or read book Asymmetric Alliances and Information Systems written by Karim Said and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of information systems on the management of North–South asymmetric strategic alliances through a series of in-depth case studies which analyze different types of partnerships. Positioned at the heart of the value creation process, the choice of information system seems to be becoming a strategic issue which should be centered not only on the organizational decisions related to the type of alliance but also the management systems of each of the partners. The authors provide an understanding of the nature of this relationship between the organizational structure and the method of information system integration in asymmetric alliances. The in-depth analysis of strategic alliance case-studies illustrates the different methods of information system integration, which are themselves linked to the organisational and structural choices of the alliance. These methods are characterized by information-sharing and coordination mechanisms as well as the balance of control over shared activities developed by the distinct partners.

Download or read book Strategic Orientation and Alliance Portfolio Configuration written by Katharina Wratschko and published by Gabler Verlag. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the resource-based view, social network theory and transaction cost theory, Katharina Wratschko shows the complex relationship between a firm’s business strategy and its alliance portfolio.

Download or read book Managing Knowledge in Strategic Alliances written by T. K. Das and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Knowledge in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Managing Knowledge in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speak to the critical issues in managing knowledge in strategic alliances. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues, such as managing uncertainty in alliances, collaborative know-how, novelty in interpartner knowledge, coopetition in knowledge integration, and dynamic knowledge capabilities, and the more focused problems of innovation and partner selection, partner responsiveness and knowledge in supply chain networks, the effect of knowledge flows on the decision to cooperate, and interpartner learning dynamics in an alliance constellation. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on knowledge management in strategic alliances.

Download or read book Strategic Integration written by Howard Thomas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Integration Edited by Howard Thomas and Don O’Neal University of Illinois, USA What a company might do; could do; wants to do; should do. These are the four elements of strategy which illustrate the integrative nature of strategic management. It quickly becomes apparent that the key to successful strategy is effective integration — of resources, competences, markets, opportunities, organizational structure, culture, environment, innovation, technology, processes, decisions and actions. There are four crucial areas of debate and these are covered in depth. They are:- Boards and Governance — suggests that no element of strategy is better positioned to influence strategy and its integration than senior management. Competition and Core Competences — examines their interdependence and relationship with successful strategy. Organizational Restructuring — discusses organizational types, IT and strategy, managing in a dynamic environment and measurement of strategic performance. Technology — demonstrates relationship between technological change and strategy, structure, culture, and competition; and the relationship between quality and strategy, and integrating technology and marketing strategies. Strategic Integration is concerned with building and maintaining bridges between theory and practice. On the research side it generates and tests theories related to business and management; and on the practitioner side it shows how to learn, understand, and apply tested theories in practice.

Download or read book Handbook of Strategic Alliances written by Oded Shenkar and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers research on strategic alliances, and serves to lay out a research agenda on collaborative strategy and alliance management. This book covers the theoretical foundations that guide work on inter-firm collaboration, ranging from sociological perspectives to real options theory to diverse traditions within organizational economics.

Download or read book Governance of International Strategic Alliances written by Joanne E. Oxley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing rigorous empirical analysis to an arena which has largely been pursued through speculative and theoretical approaches, this book provides an insightful contribution to international business, strategy, and economics.

Download or read book Mastering Alliance Strategy written by James D. Bamford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful business alliances today are critical to the competitive advantage of many companies. Mastering Alliance Strategy presents state-of-the-art thinking and practices for using partnerships effectively. This essential resource will help you understand and use alliances better, whether you are a new or seasoned alliance professional, a business-development specialist, a line manager, or a top executive. The authors argue that the secrets to success lie not solely in the intricacies of a deal but also in the strategy and organization behind the deal. They draw ideas and tools from years of research and reporting on four elements that are key to an effective alliance strategy: * Designing the alliance and crafting the agreement * Managing the alliance after it is launched * Leveraging a constellation of alliances * Building an internal alliance capability

Download or read book The Impact of Managers Participation in Costing System Design on Their Perceived Contributions to Process Improvement written by Sophie Hoozée and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of managers' participation in costing system design on their perceived contributions to process improvement. Drawing on the literature on business process management, participative decision making and self-determination theory, we propose that participation in costing system design fosters managers' perceived contributions to process improvement through their autonomous motivation for cost management and their perceived usefulness of cost information. Questionnaire data obtained from 170 Belgian managers were used to test the proposed model. The results suggest that participation in costing system design increases managers' autonomous motivation for cost management and enhances their perceived usefulness of cost information. Managers' perceived usefulness of cost information is, in turn, positively associated with their perceived contributions to process improvement. The effect of managers' autonomous motivation for cost management on their perceived contributions to process improvement is, however, not significant. Taken together, our findings imply that contributions to process improvement mainly emerge through informational mechanisms rather than motivational mechanisms triggered by the participation process.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Cost Management written by Falconer Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, cost management has been an area of dynamic change and development. This is evident in the extensive inventory of new, high-profile techniques that have emerged. With cost management now firmly established as a distinct sub-discipline within management accounting, The Routledge Companion to Cost Management is a timely reference volume covering both practical developments and research in this area. Topics covered include: Cost control issues Cost analysis and decision making Cost management systems Environmental cost management With chapters from an international team of contributors, this prestigious companion will prove an indispensible addition to any library with aspirations of keeping up-to-date with the world of accounting.

Download or read book Strategic Alliances A guideline for Identification Evaluation Negotiation and Implementation written by Daniel Klein and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to give a review about the broad topic of Strategic Alliances namely in a way understandable to non-management experts. After reading this thesis the reader should be able to answer questions such as • what are Strategic Alliances, • should a company operate through Strategic Alliances or should other strategies be considered, • what types of Strategic Alliances do exist, • how to identify the strategic and operational fit, • what impact company culture can have on an alliance, • evaluate and assess capabilities, • how to negotiate and select partners, • what impact country culture can have on alliances, • how to implement and make the alliance work. Deliberately, this thesis is kept very general, and the relevance to the construction industry is outlined at the end of the parts 1, 2 and 9 respectively. Furthermore the objective is to be practice-oriented rather than to wander in theoretical realms. Just like an estimate this thesis covers the major items and detailed samples are only provided in special cases to underline some very important coherences and to make the ‘theory’ more understandable. Samples and further information can be found in the respective appendices. Hence, the purpose of this thesis is not an enumeration of Strategic Alliance samples, as every Strategic Alliance highly depends on particular circumstances. However, the samples and further information covered by the appendices will facilitate the general understanding of some issues.