How entrepreneurial firms can benefit from alliances with large partners

By Sharon A. Alvarez, Jay B. Barney. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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External Relationships and the Small Business: A Review of Small Business Alliance and Network Research** (2007, background): “Researchers can also explore methods for small businesses to maintain exclusive ownership of their own resources in addition to the one way mentioned by Alvarez and Barney (2001).”
SME Survival: The Impact of Internationalization, Technology Resources, and Alliances (2012, background): “In addition, partners may control these relationships and extract disproportionate value from them (Alvarez and Barney 2001; Forrest 1990).”
Dancing with Gorillas: How Small Companies Can Partner Effectively with MNCs (2008, background): “There is a latent fear that a predatory larger company will obtain the lion’s share of the jointly created value.(11) The two parties will likely have different agendas and criteria for assessing outcomes, leading to further tension.”
Toward a Model of Strategic Outsourcing (2007, unknown): “As such, in alliances, individual firm performance is a function of both the total value generated by the alliance and the share of this value each firm appropriates (Alvarez and Barney, 2001; Hamel, 1991).”
Network embeddedness and new-venture internationalization: Analyzing international linkages in the German biotech industry (2008, unknown): “limits and risks to alliance usage (Alvarez and Barney, 2001; Rothaermel and Deeds, 2004).”
Co‐opetition and Technological Innovation in Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises: A Multilevel Conceptual Model (2009, background): “…vulnerability or feels the same way about A. SMEs partnering with larger firms to commercialize new technologies can be able to keep bargaining power if they GNYAWALI AND PARK 321 have capabilities to offer additional technologies or if they have inventive capabilities (Alvarez and Barney 2001).”
Exploring the Role of Industry Structure in New Venture Internationalization (2007, unknown): “Alvarez and Barney (2001) also point out that opportunism can especially be an issue for new ventures, in that larger firms can take advantage or exploit the intellectual property of new ventures.”
The dynamic impact of innovative capability and inter-firm network on firm valuation: A longitudinal study of biotechnology start-ups (2010, background): “In fact, partnering with prestigious partners could be detrimental to older start-ups with established routines and strategies because their powerful partners may demand changes disruptive to operations of startups (Alvarez, 2001).”
Export‐oriented small and medium industry clusters in Indonesia (2009, background): “See among others, Alvarez and Barney (2001), Bonaccorsi (1992), Hitt and Ireland (2000), Das and Teng (1998), and Gulati (1995).”
Complementary Resources and the Exploitation of Technological Innovations (2003, background): “Under conditions of globalization and rapid technological advancement Schoonhoven, 1996; Parkhe, 1993), and a growing number of alliances are between large and small ﬁrms (Alvarez & Barney, 2001).”