The Impact of Alliances on Knowledge Growth Within Firms

Giura, Simona Ileana; Kumar, Shyam

doi:10.1109/tem.2019.2923922

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“…Similarly, other scholars utilizing the biotechnology industry have found that cooperation between private firms and public organizations accelerates the rate of patenting (Al-Laham et al, 2010). Departing from existing work that has examined patents as an output from the development of strategic alliances (via cross citations) between firms, Giura and Kumar (2021) focused on the development of firm knowledge as a consequence of strategic alliances. In studying changes in self-citation activity, these scholars find that alliances may lead to enhanced utilization of a firm's knowledge.…”

Section: Structural Capital and Strategic Alliancesmentioning

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Examining the influence of specific IC elements on alliance formation of new ventures

Zane,

Tribbitt

2023

JIC

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PurposeIntellectual capital (IC) is essential to the success of new technology-based firms. However, young firms only possess some of the resources and capabilities needed to develop, produce and market their innovative products and services. Hence, many form alliances to access complementary resources. This paper investigates the signaling effect of technology-based start-ups’ stock of IC on alliance formation.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes primary data concerning specific classes of IC and the alliances formed. Data were collected from founders of 233 technology-based new ventures in the USA. Hypotheses were tested via hierarchical linear regression.FindingsThis study demonstrates that firms' IC, in the form of founders with doctorates and patents, is positively related to the classes of alliances formed. These stocks of IC send signals about credibility to the market for alliance partners, enabling the firms to form alliances and gain access to complementary resources. The number of founders with doctorates was positively related to R&D alliances and alliance partners in a similar place in the value chain as the focal firm. In contrast, the number of patents was positively related to total alliances, production-oriented alliances and alliances considered upstream from the focal firm.Originality/valueThis paper collects retrospective data from founders of technology-based new ventures. The research contributes to the literature with its results that founder human capital and patent portfolios are essential for technology-based firms' innovation and growth. However, little research has investigated how firms' possession of IC facilitates alliance formation. This paper investigates this connection explicitly.

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Section: Structural Capital and Strategic Alliancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the influence of specific IC elements on alliance formation of new ventures

Zane,

Tribbitt

2023

JIC

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“…Strategic alliances are those contract-based relationships among partners, which contribute to the allocation of responsibilities regarding their expertise, knowledge and resources (Giura and Kumar, 2021;Jiang et al, 2017;Lavie et al, 2012). Although studies suggest that strategic alliances are prevalent in the current turbulent environment (Cobeña et al, 2017;Ardito et al, Relational mechanisms and formal contracts 2021), more than 50% of alliances failed due to unsatisfactory outcomes (Madhok et al, 2015;Russo and Cesarani, 2017).…”

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Comparative effects of relational mechanisms and formal contracts on alliance success

Li,

Wang,

Che

et al. 2023

BJM

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PurposeThe research is aimed at investigating how relational mechanisms and formal contracts affect alliance success under constructive and destructive conflict.Design/methodology/approachWhile relational mechanisms and formal contracts are widely used in strategic alliances to manage a variety of issues among partners, recent research has indicated that effects of these governance mechanisms may change in distinct contexts. Adopting the lens of new institutional economics, this study provides insights on the comparative and interactive effects of relational mechanisms and formal contracts on alliance success, and the differential contingency effects of two types of inter-partner conflict, i.e. constructive and destructive conflict, on the above relationships. The authors use hierarchical multivariate regression analyses through a survey dataset of 392 alliance firms in China with the approach of two key informants.FindingsThe empirical results confirm that relational mechanisms have a stronger positive effect on alliance success than formal contracts and these two governance mechanisms complement each other in driving alliance success. When facing a high level of constructive conflict, partner firms rely to a greater extent on relational mechanisms than on formal contracts to achieve alliance success. When a high level of destructive conflict exists, partner firms depend more heavily on formal contracts than on relational mechanisms to achieve alliance success. Moreover, the complementary effect of the two governance mechanisms is much stronger when partner firms face high constructive conflict than when they face high destructive conflict.Originality/valueThis study discloses the comparative and interactive effects of relational mechanisms and formal contracts on alliance success in distinct contexts by identifying the moderating roles of constructive and destructive conflict.

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“…Moreover, the access to external resources and capabilities provided by collaborations also give rise to opportunities to acquire these resources and capabilities. Focal firms can internalise the know-how and skills underlying their partners' capabilities, which can then be applied in subsequent innovation activities (Giura and Kumar, 2019).…”

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Effects of technological distance on innovation performance under heterogeneous technological orientations

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The Impact of Alliances on Knowledge Growth Within Firms

Cited by 10 publications

References 54 publications

Examining the influence of specific IC elements on alliance formation of new ventures

Examining the influence of specific IC elements on alliance formation of new ventures

Comparative effects of relational mechanisms and formal contracts on alliance success

Effects of technological distance on innovation performance under heterogeneous technological orientations

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