Partnerships in transition economies: international strategic technology alliances in Russia

Understanding the Cross-Level Embeddedness of Interfirm Partnership Formation

“…Hamilton and Biggart (1988) and Sakakibara and Dodgson (2003) demonstrate that the complex interaction of country-specific legal regulation, economic policies, and existing intercompany networks has different effects on the formation of interfirm partnerships and business groups in a number of Asian countries (Japan, Korea, and Taiwan). Similar aspects are important for understanding partnerships with companies from Russia and other former communist countries (Hagedoorn & Sedaitis, 1998). Therefore, one can expect country specificity in the embeddedness of partnerships to affect the propensity to form future partnerships.…”

The Role of Strategic Technology Alliances (STA) Towards Organizational Performance in Manufacturing Industry: The Perspective of Developing Countries

“…The increasing importance of organizations acquiring external technologies has instilled research into this area recently. The growing number of alliances formed across countries indicates organizations' significant efforts to enhance their technological capabilities (Hagedoorn & Sedaitis, 1998;Norman, 2004). However, studies of alliances with high-technology organizations have predominantly been conducted in developed nations, mainly in the US (Hagedoorn, Carayannis, & Alexander, 2001;Norman, 2004;Soh & Roberts, 2005;Rothaermel & Deeds, 2006;Ybarra & Turk, 2009).…”

“…However, studies of alliances with high-technology organizations have predominantly been conducted in developed nations, mainly in the US (Hagedoorn, Carayannis, & Alexander, 2001;Norman, 2004;Soh & Roberts, 2005;Rothaermel & Deeds, 2006;Ybarra & Turk, 2009). Other studies on STAs have looked at Finland (Vilkamo & Keil, 2003), Italy (Colombo, Grilli, & Piva, 2006), Greece (Pateli, 2009), and Russia (Hagedoorn & Sedaitis 1998). More recently, researchers have started to focus on Taiwan (Ju et al, 2005;Tsai & Wang, 2009) and China (Chen & Wang 2009).…”

“…The growing stream of literature on STAs (Hagedoorn & Sedaitis, 1998;Ju et al, 2005) also highlights how organizations can develop technological competencies and acquire external knowledge. Manufacturing organizations rely on STAs to import technologies that can maintain and enhance their performance.…”

Essays of Strategic Alliance Portfolio Configuration— Its Performance Properties, Strategic Antecedents and Consequential Effects on Multinational Firms’ Continuing Foreign Expansion

“…Overall, although prior research has provided profound insights into the issue of alliance formation and emergence in terms of alliance formation patterns (Gulati, 1995a), new alliance formation (Gulati & Westphal, 1999), partner selection (Chung, Singh, & Lee, 2000), and formats of alliance formation (Hagedoorn & Sedaitis, 1998;Steensma, Marino, Weaver, & Dickson, 2000), the dyad-based analysis provide limited explanations to the formation of a system consisting of multiple alliances that surround and influence a focal firm simultaneously.…”