Title: What Drives Alliance Portfolio Benefits? The Role of Portfolio Characteristics and Coordination
Abstract: Alliance portfolios enable firms to access and integrate multiple resources from different, simultaneous partners. In our paper, we assess how alliance portfolio size, the complementarity of the resources available through the portfolio and the degree to which relation-specific investments are made across the portfolio influence alliance portfolio benefits. Next to studying characteristics of alliance portfolios, we focus on the moderating role of alliance portfolio coordination. Based on a questionnaire returned by 444 Dutch companies, we found that the three portfolio characteristics play an important role in creating benefits focal firms gain through their portfolios. Additionally, our findings suggest that alliance portfolios coordination is an important element of dealing with the challenge of managing portfolios as it shapes the effect of the other portfolio characteristics.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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