Bridging disciplines in alliances and networks: in search for solutions for the managerial relevance gap
by John Bell; Edwin Kaats; Wilfrid Opheij
International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances (IJSBA), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013

Abstract: Suppose you are an alliance manager and you want to set up or manage an alliance. Or you are an alliance consultant who advises network partners to make their relationship run more smoothly. Then, you would appreciate to find valuable advice in the literature of cooperation. However, in studying the contemporary academic literature, we concluded that it offers at best only piecemeal advice on the process of cooperation. No integrative framework was found that could provide coherence and guidance on the various stages of cooperation. This paper attempts to develop such a framework, building upon relevant streams and articles in literature. We developed five lenses to look at cooperation and used two cases (The Healthy Region and the Senseo Alliance) to illustrate how these five lenses can work.

Online publication date: Sat, 19-Jul-2014

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