{"title":"Asymmetric motives in Indian bilateral cross-border joint ventures with G7 nations: impact of relative partner characteristics and initial conditions","authors":"Sanjay Dhir, Amita Mital","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058298","url":null,"abstract":"The determinants of asymmetric motives of partners in cross-border joint ventures (CBJV) have not been adequately explored in the context of developing nations. Though there are several empirical studies for motives of partners in CBJV in developed nations but, there is no systematic empirical evidence for the same in developing nations. Another lacuna is regarding studies which analyse antecedents to these asymmetries. This article analyses relative partner characteristics and initial CBJV conditions as antecedents to the degree of asymmetric motives between CBJV partner firms in developing nation. An empirical analysis of 201 bilateral CBJVs in India with G7 nations, for a time period of ten years (2000-2010), shows that while degree of asymmetric motives between partners firms enhances when relative culture difference, capital structure and inter-partner product-market overlap increases, higher level of diversification, critical activity alignment and resource heterogeneity decreases the degree of asymmetric motives between partner firms in CBJV.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133470764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Team coordination in strategic alliances: identifying conditions that reduce team willingness to cooperate","authors":"D. Luvison, M. Marks","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058290","url":null,"abstract":"Effective coordination has been found to be an important component of strategic alliance success, but the literature has not considered the coordination challenge that occurs when parties are unwilling to cooperate with one another. This paper adopts a team level lens, informed by insights from cooperation and social identity theories, to discuss areas that affect teams' willingness to cooperate with other teams that form the network of teams operating in an alliance. This approach contributes to the literature by outlining conditions that allow more fine-grained estimation of coordination costs. In this paper, we propose that willingness to cooperate is affected by the congruence of a team's objectives with those of the overall alliance, team interdependencies, the size of the network of teams and the effectiveness of handoff processes across teams. Research and applied implications of this model are discussed.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122832486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging disciplines in alliances and networks: in search for solutions for the managerial relevance gap","authors":"John Bell, E. Kaats, W. Opheij","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058297","url":null,"abstract":"Suppose you are an alliance manager and you want to set up or manage an alliance. Or you are an alliance consultant who advises network partners to make their relationship run more smoothly. Then, you would appreciate to find valuable advice in the literature of cooperation. However, in studying the contemporary academic literature, we concluded that it offers at best only piecemeal advice on the process of cooperation. No integrative framework was found that could provide coherence and guidance on the various stages of cooperation. This paper attempts to develop such a framework, building upon relevant streams and articles in literature. We developed five lenses to look at cooperation and used two cases (The Healthy Region and the Senseo Alliance) to illustrate how these five lenses can work.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124035650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of partnering factors in international learning alliance success","authors":"Jeffrey Cummings, S. Holmberg, Qin Yang","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058296","url":null,"abstract":"Recent empirical findings and conceptual work point to the importance of partnering-related criteria in dyadic learning-alliance outcomes. Consistent with existing research on alliance partner selection, and building on the literature from organisational learning, knowledge transfer, alliances and international management, this paper develops a new multi-component model of key partnering factors linked to dyadic international learning-alliance outcomes. In order to delineate the model, we develop propositions with the aim of identifying a set of partnering-related criteria that can be used by firms to evaluate potential international learning partners and by future researchers to measure and examine the achievement of learning outcomes. We also fill a literature gap by proposing interpartner harmony as a potential mediator in the relationships between these partnering factors and learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114944746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural distance and the performance of international joint ventures: a critical assessment of model specifications and variable measurement","authors":"Jeppe Christoffersen, S. Globerman, B. Nielsen","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2013.058299","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides a critical summary and assessment of the empirical literature on the relationship between cultural distance and the performance of international joint ventures (IJVs) based on studies published over the period 1993-2008. The existing literature reports inconsistent and largely statistically insignificant findings for the relationship. We add to this literature by analysing some 63 empirical studies of the cultural distance - IJV performance linkage. We further confirm the absence of any consistent and statistically significant linkage, despite strong conceptual arguments for anticipating a strong empirical relationship. We also evaluate different proposed explanations of the weak empirical findings in the literature and find some mixed support for these explanations. We conclude with some suggestions for improving the modelling of the cultural distance - IJV performance relationship.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125005250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Packing more punch? Developing the field of inter-organisational relations","authors":"S. Cropper, M. Ebers, C. Huxham, P. Ring","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040884","url":null,"abstract":"Since Evan's (1965) call for a theory of inter-organisational relations (IOR), research into IOR has proliferated as inter-organisational practice has become more commonplace. We argue that knowledge about IOR has developed in fragmented and highly differentiated ways, despite periodic attempts to review knowledge and set an agenda for future research. Building on Culpan's (2009) prospectus for research into strategic business alliances in this journal, we argue for a more systematic, concerted programme of consolidation and abstraction of knowledge as a specific accumulation dynamic. We suggest two ways of cutting IOR's fragmentary web of knowledge. The first orders knowledge by researchers' primary substantive interests; the second derives conceptual foci from our definition of IOR. We outline three levels of work to link existing IOR knowledge. We see these as cumulative and increasingly strong, and, together, as forming the basis for consolidation of knowledge in an IOR vademecum.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125009447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An examination of a reciprocal relationship between network governance and network structure","authors":"Carsten Bergenholtz, René Chester Goduscheit","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040885","url":null,"abstract":"In the present article, we examine the network structure and governance of inter-organisational innovation networks over time. Network governance refers to the issue of how to manage and coordinate the relational activities and processes in the network while research on network structure deals with the overall structural relations between the actors in the network. These streams of research do contain references to each other but they mainly rely on a static conception of the relationship between network structure and the applied network governance. Based on a case study of a loosely coupled Danish inter-organisational innovation network, the proposition is that a reciprocal relationship between network governance and network structure can be identified. Such a reciprocal relationship involves theoretical and practical implications for how to govern an inter-organisational network.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129445446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proximity and duration in temporary organisations","authors":"T. Gössling, J. Knoben","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040887","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the effects of duration and proximity on collaborative outcomes in temporary organisations. With regard to proximity, it distinguishes between geographical and organisational proximity. The study is based on a regression analysis of an original dataset of 147 temporary organisations in the Netherlands. The results indicate that face-to face contact has a positive impact on the collaborative outcome, whereas the geographical distance between organisations does not seem to matter. Organisations with a high level of organisational proximity are also likely to achieve their goals better than organisations that are rather dissimilar. Furthermore, duration positively influences the relation between face-to-face contacts and goal attainment. However, it appears that duration as such has a negative influence on performance. This study shows that there are important differences between IORs that have to be taken into account since they matter for the level of goal achievement of a collaborative effort.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127096930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilising a national protocol for collaboration on environmental problems in Ireland: the Silvermines case","authors":"C. Garavan, B. Gray","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040888","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a case study of the collaborative process introduced by The National Protocol for the Investigative Approach to Serious Animal/Human Health Issues in Ireland. Dust blows from a large tailings management facility in a former mining area coupled with the deaths of cattle from Pb poisoning resulted in activation of the protocol, establishment of an Inter-Agency Group (IAG) and initiation of an environmental investigation. While the study found that all of the participants in the interagency collaboration found it an overall success, the collaboration's most significant outcomes were identification of the problem (environmental Pb contamination), implementation of the 39 recommendations and finally remediation of the contaminated sites. The case study highlights four issues related to managing collaborations of this type that have not been adequately addressed in previous research: 1) simultaneously assessing and mitigating the hazard; 2) promoting interagency coordination; 3) engaging with and garnering participation from the community during the consensus-building process; 4) cultivating agency leadership in collaborative efforts. The case offers those faced with human or animal health issues due to environmental contamination a model and conceptual framework of key issues to consider in designing such collaborations.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128520062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanisms of private meta-governance: an analysis of global private governance for sustainable development","authors":"P. Glasbergen","doi":"10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSBA.2011.040886","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main characteristics of global governance for sustainable development is its fragmentation. Next to public regulations, there are often many private regulations in force on the same issue, which are induced by collaborations between businesses and NGOs. Traditionally, it is assumed that governments should play a central role in solving this 'orchestration deficit'. This paper argues that the capabilities of private meta-governance have been a neglected and undervalued topic in research. Taking some illustrative cases from the field of private global governance, it defines several private meta-governance mechanisms. Connected to them the paper also defines a specific meta-governance role of states.","PeriodicalId":334553,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116687814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}