Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic intentions of strategic alliances in technology industries. Design/methodology/approach: This paper mainly uses case studies as its methodology. Findings: This paper depicts how the possibilities of firms sharing resources,...

Purpose – In the past decade, Chinese enterprises have achieved superior cost advantages in the labor‐intensive industries. This paper explores the valuable resources that Chinese enterprises use to develop such advantages and the effective mechanisms they employ to sustain the advantages....

Purpose – The past decade has witnessed the growing importance of partnerships by small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet, despite the popularity and presumed strategic importance of partnerships, partnerships by SMEs often fail and many SMEs turn to self‐reliance operation modes....