Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Interorganizational alliances and the performance of firms: a study of growth and innovation rates in a high-technology industry

MAP20071501076

Interorganizational alliances and the performance of firms: a study of growth and innovation rates in a high-technology industry / Toby E. Stuart

Sumario: This paper investigates the relationship between intercorporate technology alliances and firm performance. It argues that alliances are access relationships, and therefore that the advantages which a focal firm derives from a portfolio of strategic coalitions depend upon the resource profiles of its alliance partners. In particular, large firms and those that possess leading-edge technological resources are posited to be the most valuable associates. The paper also argues that alliances are both pathways for the exchange of resources and signals that convey social status and recognition. Particularly when one of the firms in an alliance is a young or small organization or, more generally, an organization of equivocal quality, alliances can act as endorsements: they build public confidence in the value of an organization's products and services and thereby facilitate the firm's efforts to attract customers and other corporate partners. The findings from models of sales growth and innovation rates in a large sample of semiconductor producers confirm that organizations with large and innovate alliance partners perform better than otherwise comparable firms that lack such partners. Consistent with the status-transfer arguments, the findings also demonstrate that young and small firms benefit more from large and innovate strategic alliance partners than do old and large organizations.

En: Strategic management journal. - Chichester [etc.] : Wiley. - Vol. 21, nº 8, August 2000 ; p. 791-811

1. Management . 2. Estrategia empresarial . 3. Empresas . 4. Competencia . 5. Alianzas estratégicas . 6. Rendimiento de la empresa . 7. Organizaciones internacionales . 8. Innovación empresarial . 9. Patentes . 10. Tecnología industrial . 11. Modelos de auditoría . 12. Ratios financieros . 13. Ventas . I. Title.