While doing some research for a client last week I ran into this piece by Dyer, Kale and Singh from 2001. A report about the position of the alliance office in a corporate organization and the effects of having a dedicated alliance office. In the report the authors describe how they conducted a study of 200 corporations who together had 1,572 alliances and looked at organizational perspectives and the effect the alliances had on the overall stock market performance of the corporations. [click to continue…]
Many organizations are struggling to maintain or grow their business in current economic times. Traditional organic growth asks for investments that may overstretch Today’s budgets, acquiring other companies requires substantial investments that may not be available and when you are depending on government subsidies you may be facing sincere budget cuts too. Despite the headwinds you want to maintain growth of your organization and if possible even grow faster and healthier than the competition does. Growth in a changing environment will ask for a different approach.
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