Partner Nationality and the Structure-Performance Relationship in Strategic Alliances

The dramatic growth of global strategic alliances between firms is fundamentally reshaping the nature of international business, Indeed, interfirm cooperation has become a crucial component of the pursuit of global competitive advantage. Yet such alliances are enormously complex to manage successfully, in part because of the opportunity and incentive to cheat, and profit at the partner's expense, that is an inescapable part of these...