Cooperative Strategy: Managing Alliances, Networks, and Joint Ventures - Softcover

Child, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199266255 ISBN 13: 9780199266258

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Synopsis

Strategic alliances are increasingly common, as many organizations look towards various partnering arrangements. This second edition of Strategies of Cooperation extends the first edition's clear and comprehensive survey of strategic alliances. Presenting different disciplinary perspectives (economics, strategy, organization theory) and numerous examples from the corporate world. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of new theoretical models, and its coverage of case studies has been extended. It will be ideal for business students and managers alike wishing to understand the challenges of managing alliances.

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Product Description:

Providing a comprehensive survey of strategic alliances, this book presents different disciplinary perspectives (economics, strategy, organization theory), and many examples from the corporate world. It is useful for business students and managers wishing to understand the challenges of managing alliances.

Review:

"The great contribution of this book is that it opens a window to cooperative strategy in our current business reality while offering a powerful synthesis of validated wisdom." -- Africa Ariño, Professor of Strategic Management, IESE Business School

"Written by acknowledged experts, this book provides perhaps the most comprehensive coverage of the domain of inter-firm cooperation. The presentation is scholarly, yet accessible to thinking consultants and practitioners." -- Professor of Strategic Management, IESE Business School

"This impressive and expansive volume brings together the most important thinking on alliances and networks, and it will be important reading for those who have devoted their careers to cooperative strategy as well as those who are new to this exciting area." -- Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Management & Global Business Department, Rutgers Business School

"If you are going to read only one book on strategic alliances, this should be it." -- Jeffrey J. Reuer, Guggenheim Endowed Chair and Professor of Strategy, University of Colorado

"If you are going to read only one book on strategic alliances, this should be it." -- Oded Shenkar, Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199266255
• ISBN 13: 9780199266258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 472