Making Strategic Alliances and Networks Work Flashcard-7

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To protect against opportunism within an alliance relationship, a firm could minimize the threat by: swapping critical capabilities through credible commitments.

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swapping critical capabilities through credible commitments.

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A firm in an alliance is likely to have other interfirm alliances as well, which makes it important to:

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manage the relationships as a corporate portfolio.

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For equity-based alliances, the importance of direct organizational monitoring and control is:

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high.

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The performance of an alliance can probably be best measured:

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by a combination of objective and subjective measures.

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In measuring the performance of strategic alliances and networks, subjective measures include:

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the level of managers’ satisfaction.

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For non-equity-based alliances and networks, the nature of shared resources and the degree of tacitness and complexity are:

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low.

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As a type of relationship tie, exploitation refers to such things as: selfishness, lack of choice, variation, execution.

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execution.

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A lower level of equity contribution may indicate a firm’s lack of:

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commitment.

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Firm X is considering strategic distribution alliance with Firm A. What type of alliance would this be considered?

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Downstream vertical alliance

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Cooperation between rivals is usually suspected of being:

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tacit collusion.