Strategic Alliances for Value Creation

A volume in Research in Strategic AlliancesSeries Editor T. K. Das, City University of New YorkStrategic Alliances for Value Creation is a volume in the book series Research in StrategicAlliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship inthe field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views ofinterdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of allianceorganization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series will also includecomprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial,government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through theongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek to disseminate theoreticalinsights and practical management information that will enable interested professionals to gain arigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Strategic Alliances for Value Creation contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 14chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that encompass value creation through strategic alliances in recent times.The chapters cover both the broader topics, such as multi-partner alliances, technology parks, intellectual property rights, knowledgemanagement and culture, portfolio theory, learning in alliances, and open innovation, and the more focused problems of transparency ininterfirm accounting, local partner perspective of management control, knowledge in intra-district networks, and alliance partners forentrepreneurial firms. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present awide-ranging review of the noteworthy areas of research on employing strategic alliances for value creation.