Strategic Orientation and Alliance Portfolio Configuration The Interdependence of Strategy and Alliance Portfolio Management /

• Main Author: Wratschko, Katharina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2009.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Leadership.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Business and Management, general.

Strategic alliances have become an integral part of a firm’s strategy. Despite the growing empirical evidence of the strategic importance of alliances, the influence of a firm’s strategy on the design of its alliance portfolio has hardly been addressed by strategic management research. Following the...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical underpinnings of alliance and network research
• Theoretical underpinnings of organizational configurations
• Theory and Hypotheses
• Empirical Setting: The pharmaceutical industry
• Methods
• Step 1: Identifying homogeneous strategic types
• Step 2: Analyzing the strategy – alliance portfolio alignment
• Discussion
• Conclusion and implications for future research.