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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Alliance formation"”.
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Value Creation Through Joint Venture and Strategic Alliance Formation
… the announcements of joint venture and strategic alliance formation, the main determinants of the partnering firm's choices to enter a specific joint venture and a specific strategic alliance, and the impact of such alliance formation on partnering firms' valuation. The analysis of the price …
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Alliance formation and political fragmentation in the Arab world.
… research showed that data and events involving alliance formation and political fragmentation in the Arab world and particularly the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from 1945-1990 were not treated sufficiently in the general theoretical works surveyed. A host of new propositions dealing with the …
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Partners in Peace and War: Theories of Alliance Formation and the Prospects of a Russia-China Alliance Explored
… theories on why states form military alliances. Taking a theoretical overview of balance-of-power and balance-of-threat theories, the thesis looks at their application for two major powers that have a checkered history with each other, Russia and China, and determines the reasons for a …
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The Political Origins of Alliances
Our understanding of the causes of alliance formation is limited by a lack of theoretical interest in what types of concerns might inhibit alliance formation and insufficient empirical interrogation of cases of alliance formation compared to cases of alliance non-formation. My dissertation seeks to …
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Therapeutic Alliance with Autistic Transition-Aged Youth
Therapeutic alliance is considered an established process factor that benefits treatment outcomes across the lifespan. Simultaneously, client factors, such as interpersonal relationship style and presenting diagnoses, appear to affect alliance formation. However, little is known about the …
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Essays on antecedents and consequences of cloud computing capabilities in organizations: an empirical analysis of field data
… how to better prepare for and use it in the information systems (IS) literature. A systematic analysis is necessary to clarify the equivocal issues around cloud computing and guide managers to better understand and utilize cloud computing in practice. This dissertation addresses several …
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Commitment and conflict
… predict balancing and bandwagoning behavior in alliance formation. When extended to a dynamic setting, changes to the system that result in alliance shifting may cause war. Additionally, alliance formation need not correspond to the static solutions, suggesting that the dynamics of power are as …
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George Liska's Realist Alliance Theory, And The Transformation Of Nato
… political theories to real-world phenomena. Alliances and coalitions in international relations form the backbone of the theory, concerning IR scholars with two main questions: Why do alliances and coalitions form? And, what keeps alliances and coalitions together? As the core of my research, …
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Discovering hidden patterns in technology management phenomena: three essays on using data analytics for exploration of causal inferences
… the readiness of various techniques to extract information and find patterns among them, are having a significant impact on the way companies are managed. However, the ability of these methods to generate causal inferences is still one of the fundamental questions that must be resolved before its …
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Markets for Research: A Matching Approach to University-Industry Research Collaborations
… of complementarity and substitution among the alliance partners. Second, by identifying the characteristics that drive the matching of firms and faculty, the model explains why certain firm-scientists partnerships attain superior performance. It also generates useful insights for firms that …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… it was developed in Tonga in terms of the transformation of two regional cultures, Pulotu and Langi, over Maama or Lolofonua. The middle traditional-theological history, in part three, examines the political hegemony of the Tangaloa line over the Havea Hikule’o and Maui Motu’a lineages, …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… it was developed in Tonga in terms of the transformation of two regional cultures, Pulotu and Langi, over Maama or Lolofonua. The middle traditional-theological history, in part three, examines the political hegemony of the Tangaloa line over the Havea Hikule’o and Maui Motu’a lineages, …
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Creating and capturing value in the biopharmaceutical sector
… sources, including detailed company reports and alliance databases. The thesis analyses how the pharmaceutical companies have successfully adjusted their business models to meet the challenge of biotechnology and so retain their powerful position in the industry. Central to this has been the …
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In the Shadow of Rivalry: Rebel Alliances and Civil War
<p>How does competition and rivalry within alliances affect outcomes and processes in civil wars? Towards addressing this inquiry, this dissertation presents a formal theory of alliance formation that takes into account both internal and external threats. The theory, presented in Chapter 2, focuses …
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Strategic Alliances in Beef: Concepts and Design
Alliances between participants in the beef industry have developed rapidly during the past 10 years. Industry surveys reveal alliances are expected to grow larger in number and become a more dominant part of the beef sector over the next 10 years. This research centers on providing design specific …
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Freedom and change : coming to terms with the end of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa : a case study
… on multi-cultural counseling and therapeutic alliance formation are included. This qualitative study uses the single case study method of data collection. Data was collected during a short-term couple therapy intervention that formed part of the researcher's training at the Child Guidance …
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Ideological diversity and alliance building in Social Movements: The campaign against Shell in Ireland
… asks the question: How can social movement alliances manage to acknowledge and work across difference in conflict situations? It seeks to add to deeper understandings of movements by examining a complex multi-‐group movement context in which complicated and very layered tensions were at …
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Environmental resistance and Aboriginal development : a comparative study of mining ventures in the United States and Canada
… the way in which issues are linked, strategic alliance formation and the articulation of sovereignty are the key determinants of environmental resistance in Aboriginal communities. I conclude with some lessons for both the US and Canada in terms of public policy and negotiation processes that …
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Strategic alliances by defense contractors in an era of industry consolidation
… analyses were performed to classify and evaluate alliance formation in a major defense company. The industry associated with national defense has experienced dramatic change over the past decade in terms of reduced government spending levels and extensive consolidation. These events, combined with …
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