Inter-Firm Alliances

Challenging the current flood of mergers and acquisitions this book presents analternative more efficient strategy of interfirm alliances. In the context ofrecent developments in international business the discussion takes inalliances between buyers and suppliers between competitors and between firmsin different industries. This theory is illustrated and elaborated withempirical detail from a variety of international casestudies. These studiesinclude the car industry in the US Europe and Japan the Dutch photocopierindustry and ten European electronic suppliers ... Interfirm Alliancescombines resourcebased views transactioncost analysis and institutionaleconomics to develop an original and comprehensive theory of interfirmalliances and a coherent method for managing them.