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Sub-theme 18:

Shocked by Alliances: How Interorganizational Collaboration Causes Disturbance at the Individual, Organization, Industry and Institutional Level

 

Convenors:

Paul W.L. Vlaar
Vrije University Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
pvlaar@feweb.vu.nl

Dries Faems
KU Leuven (Belgium)
dries.faems@econ.kuleuven.be

Maura Soekijad
Vrije University Amsterdam, Business Administration (The Netherlands)
msoekijad@feweb.vu.nl

Henk W. Volberda
RSM Erasmus University (The Netherlands)
hvolberda@rsm.nl


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Alliance Performance

Chair: Henk Volberda

Didier Guillot
The disruptive effect of new alliance partners on the structure and functioning of established industrial networks in Japan
Discussant: Aylin Ataay

Gerrit Willem Ziggers and Brian Tjemkes
Managing successful alliances: Matching metrics to alliance strategy during the get-going and continuation stage
Discussant: Didier Guillot

Aylin Ataay
Strategic renewal of Turkish banking sector: Survival by mergers and foreign partnerships
Discussant: Gerrit Willem Ziggers
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Co-Evolution

Chair: Henk Volberda

Victor Gilsing, Myriam Cloodt and Nadine Roijakkers
The evolution of technology-based alliance networks in pharmaceutical biotechnology
Discussant: Swetketu Patnaik

Swetketu Patnaik and Jason Ferdinand
Implications of inter-organizational collaborations on the intra-organizational dynamics in collaborating firms
Discussant: Paul Vlaar

Paul Vlaar and Dries Faems
Collaborative relationships as conduits for change: When alliances and organizations co-evolve
Discussant: Myriam Cloodt
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Knowledge Transfer

Chair: Maura Soekijad

Kalle Pajunen and Kiang Fang
The dialectical tensions of knowledge transfer in cross-cultural alliance processes
Discussant: Paulina Junni

Paulina Junni
Ambiguity as a barrier to knowledge transfer in mergers and acquisitions
Discussant: Snejina Michailova

Kenneth Husted and Snejina Michailova
Dual allegiance and knowledge sharing in inter-firm R&D alliances
Discussant: Kalle Pajunen
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
Formation of Collaborations

Chair: Dries Faems

Arnold Wilts and Tim van der Rijken
Disturbing the business landscape – Mergers between business associations and their effects on the formation of alliances
Discussant: Christian Goeke

Christian Goeke, Martin Gersch and Jörg Freiling
The co-evolution of alliances and industries – How industry transformation influences alliance formation and vice versa
Discussant: Michiel Pieters

Michiel Pieters, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Vareska van de Vrande and John Hagedoorn
Effects of technological-, firm-, ego network-, and clique level characteristics on the formation of clique spanning
Discussant: Arnold Wilts
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
Conflict and Power (between individuals)

Chair: Paul Vlaar

Jari Ylitalo and Hanna Timonen
Individuals in-between – Conflicting experiences in interorganizational collaboration
Discussant: Youtha Cuypers

Youtha Cuypers and Xavier Martin
When do alliances and other corporate development activities disrupt or strengthen buyer-supplier ties?
Discussant: Katty Marmenout
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
Autonomy

Chair: Dries Faems

Alan O'Sullivan
The role of supplier autonomy in co-development projects
Discussant: Elko Klijn

Elko Klijn, Jeffrey Reuer, Henk Volberda and Frans van den Bosch
The relationship between joint venture board design and inter-organizational performance
Discussant: Michael Huelsmann

Michael Huelsmann, Bernd Scholz-Reiter and Linda Austerschulte
Autonomous cooperation – A way to cope with critical incidents in International Supply Networks (ISN)? An analysis of Complex Adaptive Logistical Systems (CALS) and their robustness
Discussant: Alan O'Sullivan


– no Session VII –
 

 

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