This chapter constitutes, to the best of my knowledge, the first review of the empirical literature on strategic decision processes in the realm of strategic alliances. I focused my review on those decision processes that are strategic, i.e., that deal with the question of how alliance-related...

We propose a duopoly model of competition between internet search engines endowed with different technologies and study the effects of an agreement where the more advanced firm shares its technology with the inferior one. We show that the superior firm enters the agreement only if it results in...

Im Mittelpunkt dieses IfG-Arbeitspapieres stehen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke. Es handelt sich dabei um vertikale Kooperationen in einer bestimmten Ausgestaltung. Mitglieder sind rechtlich selbständige Unternehmen, die auf mindestens zwei aufeinander folgenden Wertschöpfungsstufen...