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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"strategic alliance"”.
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Value Creation Through Joint Venture and Strategic Alliance Formation
… to 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 …
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Exploring the Feasibility of a Strategic Alliance Approach to Telecommunications Provision in Rural Municipalities
… of municipal and private sector provider strategic alliances as an approach to provisioning rural areas with improved telecommunications infrastructure and services. As a means of determining whether the possibility exists of a "meeting of the minds" between municipalities and private …
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Attitude and behaviour dichotomy in SME strategic alliance: A south west of Western Australian study
Strategic alliances are generally perceived as cooperative relationships constrained within the parameters of bounded rationality, seeking to maximise their levels of control in a turbulent economic environment. They are also commonly conceptualised as a means of creating competitive advantage in …
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Strategic Alliance Between a Bed & Breakfast Inn and a Restaurateur: Impact on Net Income of the Bed & Breakfast Inn
This study was conducted to investigate the impact of restaurant facilities, belonging to a B&B and leased to a professional restaurateur, upon the revenue of the B&B. This study assessed the physical demands placed on the B&B operator by an on-premises restaurant. Lack of sufficient data precluded …
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The relationships between selected strategic alliance factors and the success of strategic alliances between United States casino hotels and restaurants
Strategic alliances between hotels and restaurants have existed in one form or another for many years. Hotels and restaurant companies will form more strategic alliances in the future as hotel and restaurant operators see strategic alliances as offering attractive benefits. Such a partnership can …
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A sustainable competitiveness model for strategic alliances: a study of rural entrepreneurs and commercial organisations in Malaysia with special emphasis on Malaysian farmers' organisations
It is evident that strategic alliance route offers Malaysian Farmers’ Organisations a reliable and realistic way forward, towards wealth creation and socio-economic development. It has brought about positive financial rewards to the farmers as well as that of the farmer’s organisations themselves. …
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Knowledge Transfer, Organisational Learning, and the Performance of International Strategic Alliances : A Co-evolutionary Perspective
… impacts on the performance of international strategic alliances. This research thus develops a co-evolutionary view on international strategic alliance performance and empirically investigates the interplay between contextual and processual antecedents of alliance performance. -- By …
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Essays on antecedents and consequences of cloud computing capabilities in organizations: an empirical analysis of field data
… important consequences – firm performance and strategic alliance formation. It is found that in order to better prepare for cloud computing adoption, firm users can do something themselves by modularizing their internal IT systems. Firms also need to know whether and how cloud computing, after …
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An analysis of structure and process of corporate alliance development using system architecture frameworks
A strategic alliance has been one of the core methods for expanding the business of many corporations in terms of geographic presence, business domain, and technological scope. The strategic alliance includes many different types of partnerships, including licensing in and out, joint product …
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"Strategic Alliances in the Energy Sector": Understanding performance from the perspective of process theories of change
… to compete through cooperation in the form of strategic alliances.<br/><br/>The energy industry is high profile in many countries as natural resources are considered to be of national or public interest. The development of activities in this sector are highly influenced by economic, political …
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The formation process of global strategic alliances between local and foreign companies in the United Arab Emirates: a case study approach
… investigation of the formation process of global strategic alliances between local and foreign companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its main aim is to provide a better understanding of the process of forming global strategic alliances in a developing economy environment and to develop a …
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Finding ways to engage with a healthy tourism "offer": evaluating potential synergies between wellbeing, public health, and tourism at a local destination.
… to explain how wellbeing may contribute to a strategic alliance between public health and tourism at the local destination level. A constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted, using methods of participant observation and interviews. Participant observation was conducted within the …
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As relações entre Brasil e Venezuela (2003-2010): formação de uma aliança estratégica
… between the two nations reach to admit as the "strategic alliance", from Lula entry in charge of the Brazilian government and Hugo Chavez's statement on the central government of Venezuela, the relationship between the two south American neighbors have reached a level hitherto unpublished. This …
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To Plow a Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo and Mapuche Politics in Chile, 1920-1960
… shows that collaboration, periodic conflict and strategic alliance making were important components of indigenous politics in Chile. It also brings indigenous agency to the fore, and in doing so challenges historical interpretations of indigenismo that have characterized it as a paternalistic …
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The Influence of Evaluative Reactions to Attribute Frames and Accounting Data on Capital Budgeting Decisions
… decisions (dichotomous decision) and strategic alliance judgments (monetary allocations). Experimental findings strongly support the predicted relationships. These results suggest that persuasive descriptions are not effective in capital budgeting contexts when accounting data provides …
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The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks
… experts, and transnational activists -- into strategic alliance, or what can become coded as relations of promiscuity. What brings these partnerships together and seduces such disparate actors into alliance isn't so much the promise of increased technology access. It is instead the promise of …
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The world in the network: the Interop trade show, Carl Malamud's Internet 1996 Exposition, and the politics of internet commercialization
… and the research and user communities into strategic alliance to tackle the practicalities of expanding the Internet's core networking protocols and assembling diverse networks into a global Internet. The period examined culminates with the Internet 1996 World Exposition. Through that event, …
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In Search Of Marketing's Genie: Essays On The Impact Of Ceo And Corporate Governance Factors On Marketing Strategies
… to new product introduction announcements and strategic alliance announcements by looking at the impact of internal corporate governance on the abnormal returns resulted from these announcements. It is hypothesized that (a) higher pay gap between CEO and the other TMT members may negatively …
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Impossible allies: SNCC, Black freedom, and the civil rights liberal alliance
… in the public sphere, this civil rights liberal alliance ultimately de-centered Black-defined interests, visions, and goals from the Black freedom struggle. While grassroots, Black-centered direct action was a key part of the civil rights liberal framework, maintaining strategic alliance with …
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Environmental resistance and Aboriginal development : a comparative study of mining ventures in the United States and Canada
… particularly 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 …
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