Strategic Alliances in a Globalizing World

A volume in Research in Strategic AlliancesSeries Editor T. K. Das City University of New YorkStrategic Alliances in a Globalizing World 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.Strategic Alliances in a Globalizing World contains contributions by leading scholars in the field ofstrategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speakto the growing role of strategic alliances in a globalizing business world. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues such as the creation ofcompetitive advantage and expanding into institutionally different countries and the more focused problems of alliance formation contractualgovernance governance structure choice the development of alliance capability the containment of opportunism relationship managementsensemaking and the intersection of culture and legitimacy. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics andcollectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy areas of alliance research in the globalization context.