Competition within and between networks: The contingent effect of competitive embeddedness on alliance formation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gimeno, J
• 署名单位: INSEAD Business School
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/20159625
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 820-842
• 关键词: STRATEGIC GROUPS; CREDIBLE COMMITMENTS; MOBILITY BARRIERS; INTERFIRM RIVALRY; social-structure; joint ventures; industry; COOPERATION; MARKET; ORGANIZATION

摘要

I examine how firms use alliances to respond to the alliance networks of their rivals, by either allying with their rivals' partners or by building countervailing alliances. Evidence from the global airline industry (1994-98) suggests that these strategic responses depend on alliance cospecialization. Cospecialized alliances by rivals may involve exclusivity, precluding alliances with the rivals' partners and thus encouraging countervailing alliances. Nonspecialized alliances are less exclusive and are used when rivals share the same partners.