Many firms have found that the benefits of interorganizational cooperation may be outweighed by costs arising from unintended leaks in product or process technology, market insight, and other knowledge-based assets to the alliance partner. Successful alliance management involves a process of...

R&D alliances and previous experience with the sharing of intellectual property rights are expected to have significant effects on joint patenting by alliance partners. Although so far un-researched, this is both an intuitively and theoretically appealing subject because joint patenting could...

There's been a flurry of CEO dismissals in recent times. What can top managers do to predict and prevent the failures that lead to such ousters? Greater emphasis on strategic decision making may be the answer.