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Industry Restructuring Through Alliances: ‘Open Systems’ and the European Mainframe Computer Industry

In: European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s

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  • Karel Cool
  • H. Landis Gabel

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Quite clearly, joint ventures, alliances and other forms of collaborative agreements have achieved spectacular growth in the 1980s (see Doz, 1990). They have sometimes been described as more flexible mechanisms toward building competitive advantage than the traditional ‘internal development’ and ‘merger and acquisition’ routes. Indeed, some firms like NEC and Komatsu are reputed to have been particularly able at exploiting alliances to strengthen their competitive position (see Hamel, Doz and Prahalad, 1989).

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  • Karel Cool & H. Landis Gabel, 1992. "Industry Restructuring Through Alliances: ‘Open Systems’ and the European Mainframe Computer Industry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Karel Cool & Damien J. Neven & Ingo Walter (ed.), European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s, chapter 13, pages 357-380, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12582-1_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12582-1_13
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