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THE ROLE OF CAPABILITIES IN NEW ALLIANCE CREATION AND
PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
by
Kimberlie J. Stephens
_____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Kimberlie J. Stephens
Object Description
| Title | The role of capabilities in new alliance creation and performance: a study of the biotechnology industry |
| Author | Stephens, Kimberlie J. |
| Author email | kimberliestephens@yahoo.com; kimpothoven@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-04-21 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Fulk, Janet |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Monge, Peter Mayer, Kyle |
| Abstract | Strategic alliances, or interorganizational relationships, are a prevalent strategy used to achieve organizational goals. Along with the increasing prevalence of alliances has come a heightened need to understand the dynamics of these relationships, as approximately half of the alliances entered fail (Kale, Dyer & Singh, 2002). This research, therefore, seeks to expand on our current understanding of alliance capability development by exploring the effects of specific types of alliance and technological experience as well as their interactions on new alliance formation and performance. Using the resource based view of the firm as a theoretical framework, this research finds that firms are significantly more likely to enter into alliance types, and with specific alliance partners, with which they have past experience. The RBV notion that firm resources will be utilized in strategic decisions is supported by this finding. Experience in a particular product area was also found to increase the likelihood of firms entering into non-R&D type relationships suggesting the use of alliance relationships to capitalize on or seek to exploit product specific resources in the alliance context. Alliance experience in general was found to positively influence the performance of alliance relationships, while specific types of alliance experience were only found to influence performance when entering into that type of relationship. In this way, firms seem to develop distinct capabilities in specific alliance types that are not necessarily easily transferred from one relationship type to another. |
| Keyword | strategic alliances; resource based view |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2464 |
| Rights | Stephens, Kimberlie J. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Stephens-3095 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Stephens-3095.pdf |
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| Full text | THE ROLE OF CAPABILITIES IN NEW ALLIANCE CREATION AND PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY by Kimberlie J. Stephens _____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Kimberlie J. Stephens |
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