Cooperative Strategy

This is a clear and comprehensive survey of strategic alliances which presents different disciplinary perspectives and numerous examples from the corporate world. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of new theoretical models and its coverage of case studies has been extended.

Many alliances are established in order to enhance a company's knowledge or
capacity to generate new knowledge through learning. This chapter starts by
introducing the concept of organizational learning, its different levels, and its
relation to knowledge. It then identifies different forms of learning in and through
alliances. Alliance partners' motives toward learning are also extremely
significant, and the chapter distinguishes between alliances in which partners
seek to learn ...