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A Culture of Cooperation? Not Yet

In: The Allianced Enterprise Global Strategies for Corporate Collaboration

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  • Arvind Parkhe

    (International Business and Strategy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States)

Abstract

Alliances are here to stay. Even the smartest, biggest, and richest companies have learned the value of competing through cooperation. With shortening product life cycles, rising cost pressures, and growing demands to respond to specific host government requirements and consumer tastes, companies seem to have accepted as fact the premise that remaining a corporate loner is simply not an attractive option. Observers of the business landscape note, with merit, how the current wave of alliances involves not just peripheral products, geographic markets, and technologies, but also those that touch the very core of alliance participants' vital competitive advantages. So alliances are fast becoming a mainstay of competitive strategy, rather than a transitional ploy helping corporate executives grope toward more permanent solutions. And because the underlying forces that have spawned alliances are mounting, not abating, alliances will continue to proliferate as well …

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  • Arvind Parkhe, 2001. "A Culture of Cooperation? Not Yet," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Ard-Pieter de Man & Geert Duysters & Ash Vasudevan (ed.), The Allianced Enterprise Global Strategies for Corporate Collaboration, chapter 13, pages 119-122, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781848161405_0013
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