Cooperative strategy : managing alliances and networks / John Child, David Faulkner, Stephen Tallman, Linda Hsieh.

This new edition of Cooperative Strategy provides a comprehensive view of the practical and theoretical literature concerning cooperative strategies, and the alliance and network organizational forms that are the enablers of these strategies.

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Main Authors: Child, John, 1940- (Author), Faulkner, David, 1938- (Author), Tallman, Stephen B. (Author), Hsieh, Linda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:Third edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Cooperative Strategy: Managing Alliances and Networks; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Part I: The Nature of Cooperation and its Role in Strategy; 1: Introduction; 1.1 What this chapter covers; 1.2 Cooperative strategy; 1.3 Cooperative, competitive, and corporate strategy; 1.4 The challenge of managing a cooperative strategy; 1.5 Focus of the book; 1.6 Organization of the book; 1.7 Summary; 1.8 Questions for discussion; REFERENCES; 2: Economic perspectives; 2.1 What this chapter covers; 2.2 Market-power theory; 2.3 Transaction cost economics
  • 2.4 Agency theory2.5 Resource-based theory; 2.6 Transaction value theory; 2.7 Dynamic capabilities theory; 2.8 Real-options theory; 2.9 Increasing-returns theory; 2.10 Summary; 2.11 Questions for discussion; REFERENCES; 3: Managerial and organizational perspectives; 3.1 What this chapter covers; 3.2 Strategic management theory; 3.3 Game theory; 3.4 Bargaining power models; 3.5 Contracts and cooperation; 3.6 Organization theory; 3.6.1 RESOURCE-DEPENDENCE PERSPECTIVE; 3.6.2 ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES; 3.6.3 ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; 3.7 Stakeholder models and cooperation; 3.8 Summary
  • 3.9 Questions for discussionREFERENCES; 4: Behavioral perspectives; 4.1 What this chapter covers; 4.2 Relational signaling theory; 4.3 Attention-based view; 4.4 Justice theory; 4.5 Sociological views; 4.5.1 SOCIAL NETWORK VIEW; 4.5.2 SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY; 4.6 Trust; 4.6.1 SIGNIFICANCE; 4.6.2 A MULTI-LEVEL PHENOMENON; 4.6.3 THE FOUNDATIONS OF TRUST; 4.6.4 TRUST AND ALLIANCE DEVELOPMENT; Formation and calculation; Implementation and mutual understanding; Evolution and bonding; Co-evolution of trust in alliances with control and learning; 4.6.5 DEVELOPING TRUST; A basis for mutual benefit
  • Conflict resolution and mutual understandingMutual bonding; 4.7 Summary; 4.8 Questions for discussion; REFERENCES; Part II: Forms of Cooperation; 5: Types of cooperation and networks; 5.1 What this chapter covers; 5.2 Types of cooperation; 5.3 Alliance forms; 5.3.1 COOPERATIVE NETWORKS; 5.3.2 ALLIANCE TAXONOMIES; 5.4 Choice of form; 5.5 Summary; 5.6 Questions for discussion; REFERENCES; 6: Cooperative strategies in the platform economy; 6.1 What this chapter covers; 6.2 From value chains to platforms; 6.3 Types of platform
  • 6.4 The principles of platform business and the tacit cooperative strategies of suppliers, platform providers, and customers6.5 Platform governance; 6.6 Summary; 6.7 Questions for discussion; REFERENCES; 7: Global production networks and cooperation; 7.1 What this chapter covers; 7.2 Background theory; 7.3 Outsourcing and cooperation in context; 7.3.1 OUTSOURCING AND COOPERATION IN PRODUCT MANUFACTURING; 7.3.2 OUTSOURCING AND COOPERATION IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED SERVICES; 7.4 Location and cooperation; 7.5 Organizing cooperation in the global supply network; 7.6 Summary; 7.7 Questions for discussion