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Configurations of Alliance Governance Systems

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Using the configurational approach, I synthesize alliance governance research by interpreting alliance governance systems as organizational form. I identify and analyze a set of design and contingency parameters and their interrelationships resulting in five configurations of alliance governance systems. These configurations are valuable for scholars in that they deepen our understanding of alliances along organization theoretical dimensions and expand the organization design literature to the field of interfirm alliances. For management practice, these configurations are valuable in that they can serve as diagnostic tools for alliance design.

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For their valuable and constructive comments on earlier versions of this paper I thank Werner Delfmann, Jochen Koch, Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß, Arnold Picot, Guido Möllering, Joanne Oxley, Markus Reihlen, and seminar participants at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, and the 33rd workshop of the Organization Theory Interest Group of the German Academic Aßociation for Busineß Research.

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Albers, S. Configurations of Alliance Governance Systems. Schmalenbach Bus Rev 62, 204–233 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03396805

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