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Research presented concerns corporate planning and organizational conduct, focusing on achieving a competitive advantage through strategic networks. Topics addressed include corporate positioning within an industry, outsourcing, risk-sharing, and supply-chain management.
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Research presented concerns the management of strategic learning alliances among corporations, focusing on the tension between cooperation and competition. Topics addressed include firm learning behavior, private and common benefits to learning alliances, and profit-maximizing behavior.
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The tension between cooperation and competition affects the dynamics of learning alliances. These alliances are described through a theoretical framework which utilized simultaneously competitive and cooperative behavior by participating companies and determined factors that induced the occurrence of each type of behavior. Two kinds of benefits are associated with learning alliances, namely, private and common benefits. Private benefits are benefits that firms can earn through the acquisition of skills from their partners and applying them to their own operations while common benefits accrue to each partner from a collective learning application. High ratios of private to common benefits lead to departures from cooperative behavior toward competitive behavior while deviations from purely cooperative behavior in alliances are associated with market portfolio.
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