Managing Multipartner Strategic Alliances

A volume in Research in Strategic AlliancesSeries Editor T. K. Das City University of New YorkManaging Multipartner Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliancesthat focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategicalliances. In particular the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworksand models significant practical problems of alliance organization and management and emerging areas ofinquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of businesseconomic 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 theoreticalinsights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorousand comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Managing Multipartner Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategicalliance research. The 10 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics related to theformation operation and performance of multipartner strategic alliances (i.e. alliances with more than two members) that are increasingly beingformed in various industrial sectors. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues such as the peculiar complexities of multipartner alliances thatarise because of indirect or generalized reciprocities among its multiple members vis-à-vis the direct reciprocity within dyadic or two-memberalliances and the roles of power and multilevel embeddedness and the more focused topics of managing triadic alliances the evolution of an airlinealliance and the nature of value creation in a consortium. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics andcollectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the nature management and performance of multipartneralliances.