Managing alliance portfolios and networks

Foreword to the series -- About the series -- Value creation in alliance ecosystems : insights from marketing / Sara Leroi-Werelds, Oana-Maria Pop, and Nadine Roijakkers -- Managing alliance portfolios : lessons from social enterprise / Sophie Clark, Megan Woods, and David Adams -- A configurational perspective on alliance management capabilities / Anja Geigenmüller and Alexander Leischnig -- Competition dynamics of alliance networks / Sascha Albers -- The internationalization of an alliance portfolio as an sme development driver / Marco Castiglioni, Ignacio Castro, and José Luis Galán -- The structural embeddedness of alliance networks during industry convergence driven multimarket competition / Tuhin Chaturvedi -- Looking for alliance portfolio characteristics : the case of telecom industry / Giulio Ferrigno -- Embracing the portfolio perspective on alliance constellations / Gerrit W. Ziggers -- Managing clusters in smes: the role of dynamic capabilities / Mona Rashidirad and Hamid Salimian -- About the contributors