Managing Knowledge in Strategic Alliances

Managing Knowledge in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliancesthat will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategicalliances. In particular the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoreticalframeworks and models significant practical problems of alliance organization and management andemerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selectedsegments of business economic industrial government and non-profit activities with wide prevalence ofstrategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles this book series will seek todisseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interestedprofessionals 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 inthis volume cover a number of significant topics that speak to the critical issues in managing knowledge in strategic alliances. The chapter topicscover both the broader issues such as managing uncertainty in alliances collaborative know-how novelty in interpartner knowledge coopetition inknowledge integration and dynamic knowledge capabilities and the more focused problems of innovation and partner selection partnerresponsiveness and knowledge in supply chain networks the effect of knowledge flows on the decision to cooperate and interpartner learningdynamics in an alliance constellation. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics and collectively present awide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on knowledge management in strategic alliances.