Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research
The emerging digital transformation in the twenty‐first century is rapidly and significantly changing the business landscape. The fast‐changing activities, expectations and new modes of collaboration suggest it is time to review the current theoretical insights from strategic alliance (SA) research,...
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Published in | British journal of management Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 589 - 617 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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London
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.07.2020
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Summary: | The emerging digital transformation in the twenty‐first century is rapidly and significantly changing the business landscape. The fast‐changing activities, expectations and new modes of collaboration suggest it is time to review the current theoretical insights from strategic alliance (SA) research, which are based on assumptions from a different era. We therefore aim to stimulate multidisciplinary debate and theoretical reflections to better understand emerging paradoxes and challenges that contemporary firms face in the formation, evolution and dissolution of strategic alliances. Specifically, we offer alternative visions of SA research and suggest fresh applications or supplements of existing theoretical perspectives and research methods that can better address the research questions emerging from an era of digital transformation. |
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Bibliography: | Authors of this paper would like to thank the Co‐Editor‐in‐Chief, Professor Geoffrey Wood, and anonymous reviewers for their excellent comments and guidance in revising this paper. Emanuel Gomes would like to acknowledge financial support from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (UID/ECO/00124/2013) by LISBOA‐01‐0145‐FEDER007722 and Social Sciences Data Lab, Project 22209. |
ISSN: | 1045-3172 1467-8551 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8551.12406 |