Synopses & Reviews
Three geographically targeted volumes comprised in the Cooperative Strategies series the most ambitious effort to date to explore the extent, nature, operations, and environment of cross-border cooperative linkages in North American, European, and Asian Pacific regions. The scholars who contributed to The Cooperative Strategies Series include top experts in international strategy and management. Consolidating cutting-edge scholarship and forecasting of future trends, they focus on a wide variety of new cooperative business arrangements and offer the most up-to-date assessment of them. They present the most current research on topics such as: advances in theories of cooperative strategies; the formation of cooperative alliances; the dynamics of partner relationships; and the strategy and performance of cooperative alliances. Blending conceptual insights with empirical analyses, the contributors highlight commonalities and differences across national, cultural, and trade zones. The chapters in this volume are anchored in a wide set of theoretical approaches, conceptual frameworks, and models, illustrating how rich the area of cooperative strategies is for scholarly inquiry. The Cooperative Strategies Series represents an invaluable resource for serious academic study and for business practitioners who wish to improve not only their understanding but also the performances of their joint ventures and alliances.
Synopsis
New business models for a new world of business. In three geographically targeted volumes, foremost international strategy and management experts assess the theory and practice behind today's creative, cooperative international business alliances.
Globalization demands adaptation, innovation, and cooperation. Joint ventures, strategic alliances, R&D partnership, consortia, technology transfers, and licensing, management service, franchising and cross-manufacturing agreements are just some of the strategies being implemented by international finns in our rapidly changing global business environment. Consolidating cutting-edge research and forecasting future trends, The Cooperative Strategies Series explores the extent, nature, operations, and environments of a variety of cross-border cooperative linkages around the world.
In each volume, international contributors present the most up-to-date research on these topics: Advances in Theories of' Cooperative Strategies, the Formation of Cooperative Alliances, the Dynamics of are Partner Relationships, the Role of Information and Knowledge in Cooperative Alliances, and the Strategy and Performance of Cooperative Alliances. Blending conceptual insights with empirical analyses, they highlight commonalties and differences across national, cultural, and trade zones.