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"Alliance Portfolio Diversity, Organizational Slack, and Firm Financial Performance"

2014

We investigate how the availability of slack influences a firm’s ability to deal with alliance portfolio diversity. Alliances with diverse partners provide access to a broader pool of complementary...

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Alliance portfolio diversity, organizational slack, and firm performance

2013

In this paper we analyze whether and how the availability of internal resources in the form of slack influences a firm ability to deal with partner diversity in its alliance portfolio. Alliances with diverse partners provide access to a broader pool of complementary resources, but they also entail significant coordination costs. In this context, we argue that slack acts as a doubleedged sword that can either facilitate or hinder the management of interdependencies among different alliance projects. Accordingly, we further argue that the net impact of slack will depend on the firm’s experience in dealing with the challenges posed by portfolio diversity. Empirical analysis on a sample of firm…

alliance portfolio partner diversity organizational slack firm performance global automobile industry empirical analysis
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THE ROLE OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN FIRM’S ALLIANCE STRATEGY

2014

partner selectioncapital structurestrategic alliancegovernance choicealliance portfolio
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