Do Firms Learn from Alliance Terminations? An Empirical Examination
In this paper, drawing from the learning from failure perspective, we argue that firms that have experienced prior terminations are less likely to have their future alliance terminated. Our key argument is that prior terminations will enable firms to design better alliances and adopt more appropriate alliance management strategies to avoid future terminations. We also suggest a more nuanced view of learning by hypothesizing that termination experience will mediate the relationship between alliance formation experience and likelihood of termination. We used the case-control methodology to select a sample of 198 alliances (consisting of 99 terminations and an equal number of surviving alliances) from the global biotechnology industry, and deployed logistic regression analysis to test the hypotheses in a multivariate setting. Our analysis strongly supports both hypotheses. Copyright (c) Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009.
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2009
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Authors: | Pangarkar, Nitin |
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Journal of Management Studies. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0022-2380. - Vol. 46.2009, 6, p. 982-1004
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Wiley Blackwell |
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