“…Research on strategic alliances has grown markedly, especially during the last two decades, but is largely dispersed and fragmented (Moran, Souza, Boaventura, Marinho, & Fischmann, 2010). For instance, research has taken multiple lenses and contexts, including the process of alliancing (Doz, Olk, & Ring, 2000;Ring & Van de Ven, 1994), the transaction costs involved in an alliance (Parkhe, 1993a), or the management costs involved (Harrigan, 1986;Killing, 1983), characteristics of alliances (Borys & Jemison, 1989), complexity (Killing, 1988), partner selection (Hamel, Doz, & Prahalad, 1989;Li & Ferreira, 2008;Ring & Van de Ven, 1994;Shah & Swaminathan, 2008), performance and value creation of alliances (Das & Teng, 1998;Kogut, 1988;Parkhe, 1993a) and longevity (Park & Ungson, 1997).…”