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EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
ALLIANCE EXPERIENCE AND FIRM CAPABILITY
DEVELOPMENT
by
Rui Wu
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)
December 2010
Copyright 2010 Rui Wu
Object Description
| Title | Empirical essays on relationships between alliance experience and firm capability development |
| Author | Wu, Rui |
| Author email | Rui.Wu.2009@marshall.usc.edu; wur@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Business Administration |
| School | Marshall School of Business |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-04-30 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-19 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Mayer, Kyle J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rajagopalan, Nandini Kennedy, Mark T. Fulk, Janet |
| Abstract | In the context of interfirm alliances, this dissertation analyzes partners’ alliance experience as a multi-dimensional construct, and examines the effects of experience dimensions on governance decisions and on market value creations. This dissertation focuses on the governance aspect of experience, or the extent to which a firm has managed focused or diverse alliance governance structures. A firm’s experience of prior alliances can be characterized by the depth in a specific governance form and the breadth of diverse governance forms. In-depth experience creates governing capabilities that are specific to a focal structure and result in exploitation of the same structure. Diverse governance experience broadens the range of alliance-related knowledge, and lead to better informed governance decisions by the creation of selection capabilities. In the first empirical essay, I examine a model that integrates both contractual hazards and experience-based capabilities to predict governance decisions. The second essay takes a further step by examining how the stock market responds to experience factors when evaluating events of new alliance formation. In a sample of alliances formed by US software companies, I find strong empirical evidence for the argument of multi-dimensional experience in affecting strategic decisions and value creations. |
| Keyword | strategic management; strategic alliance; interfirm relationship; experience; firm capability; transaction cost; organizational learning; market value creation |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2001/2005 |
| 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-m3407 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Wu, Rui |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Wu-4024 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Wu-4024.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ALLIANCE EXPERIENCE AND FIRM CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT by Rui Wu A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Rui Wu |
