What Do Partners Share in Strategic Alliances?

  • Lee Li
Conference paper
Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 426)

Abstract

This study categorizes resources into firm-specific and general resource; costs into accounting and non-accounting cost; and risks into visible and invisible risks. Using data from 167 Canadian firms in technology industries, we find that sharing firm-specific resources and non-accounting costs are negatively correlated with environmental dynamism but sharing general resources, accounting costs and visible risks are positively correlated with environmental dynamism. Findings suggest that sharing certain resources, costs and risks do not necessarily incur high transaction costs.

Keywords

Strategic alliances Environmental dynamism 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Lee Li
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  1. 1.York UniversityTorontoCanada

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