This article investigates how alliance portfolio composition affects young firms' outcomes. Drawing on signaling theory, we propose how alliance portfolio composition — number, functional domains (R&D, manufacturing, and marketing), and single-purpose or multi-purpose nature of alliances...

This paper introduces the volume on Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy, which is devoted to exploring a relatively new justification for how multi-business firms create value having flexibility to internally redistribute non-financial resources across their businesses. We clarify how a...

This study empirically examines the impact of firms’ pursuing multiple generic strategies,namely, Porter’s low-cost and focus strategies. We conceptualize pursuing cost efficiencyadvantage as low-cost strategy and restraining rivalry through horizontal differentiation as focusstrategy....