The Alliance Mastery Reading list

The list below contains a link to excellent books and white papers on alliances and related topics. The book links are links to Amazon.com, the white paper links are links to the sites where they are hosted. If you have or know of additional resources that should be included in the list then please add them in the comments.

[Last update: November 6, 2012]

Alliance books

• Yves Doz & Gary Hamel – Alliance Advantage: The Art of Creating Value Through Partnering
• Steve Steinhilber – Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work (Memo to the Ceo)
• Brian Tjemkes, Pepijn Vos, Koen Burgers – Strategic Alliance Management
• James D. Bamford, Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, Michael S. Robinson – Mastering Alliance Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide to Design, Management, and Organization
• Harvard Business Review on Strategic Alliances
• Laurence Capron, Will Mitchell – Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma

Other inspirational business books worth reading

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
• Fast Strategy: How strategic agility will help you stay ahead of the game
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Whitepapers

• Rhythm of Business: Designing the Enterprise Capability for Managing Collaborative Relationships
• Phoenix Consulting Group: Optimize your return on relationships, Building Value Creating Alliances
• Ard-Pieter de Man, Nadine Roijakkers – Alliance Governance: Balancing Control and Trust in Dealing with Risk
• Jeff Shuman, Jan Twombly – Alliance Governance: Helpful or Hurtful?
• Luuk van der Laan – Legal and Practical, a Contradiction? Laying the Foundations for a Successful Alliance