Despite the attention mergers and acquisition have received from financial and marketing
strategists, the merger failure rate remains as high as ever. In light of the current wave of …

We show how the tension between cooperation and competition affects the dynamics of
learning alliances.'Private benefits' and 'common benefits' differ in the incentives that they …

Organizational theorists have correctly argued that the emergence and maintenance of
robust cooperation between global strategic alliance partners is related to the diversity in the …

Global is often used synonymously with big and giant. A global industry is often
characterized as one in which only a few giant multinational enterprises can survive, the …

This paper investigates the outcomes and durations of strategic alliances among competing
firms, using alliance outcomes as indicators of learning by partner firms. We show that …

Despite the recent proliferation of interfirm alliances designed to govern cooperative efforts
in creating or exploiting technology, we have limited understanding of how firms choose …

Empirical research indicates that more than half of strategic alliances fail, and the outcomes
of alliance failure can be devastating. Despite the increased concern about managing …

Why do so many joint ventures fail? Despite the fact that their success is the exception rather
than the rule, the literature on why joint venture performance has been so poor remains …

Acknowledgements lowe much more than I can ever say to Bill Starbuck and the late Jerome
Nesa, but there comes a time when everything which has been happily kept tacit has to be …

Thoroughly updated and expanded, the fourth edition of International Human Resource
Management: Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises now includes learning …