The Antidote: Volume 2 Issue 4
Table of contents
Blooming alliances
T KippenbergerLooks at business alliances and how the headline makers are already big players, e.g. General Electric and Pratt & Whitney — combining to fight Rolls‐Royce; Mobil and BP in…
Transaction costs — explaining the shape you're in
T KippenbergerDescribes an overview of a substantial body of theory, whose importance lies in the concept, not the detail. States one of the bugbears of joint ventures is the worry that a…
The Prisoner's Dilemma
T KippenbergerUses ‘The Prisoner's Dilemma’ (attributed to Albert Tucker) to explain game theory — showing achieving co‐operation is a fundamental management problem, which reveals itself…
The art of alliances: the ability to create and sustain relationships is now a key corporate resource
T KippenbergerUses Rosabeth Moss Kanter's 15 principles and 8 I's (initial letters of the successful word areas) to argue consistently that inter‐company relationships cannot be run on purely…
Strategic alliances: the offspring of their parents
T KippenbergerPosits that there are four basic motives for forming strategic alliances: first, whether the business is a core or peripheral part of the parent organization's activities; second…
Collaborating to compete: cross‐border alliances
T KippenbergerSets out to show that although strategic alliances do represent challenges for managers, they are a useful vehicle for international strategy. Finds that the average life span of…
Locomotives or juggernauts? — partnerships with the Japanese
T KippenbergerRegards East Asian dynamism as a world ‘locomotive’ to which the West should link its enterprise — even though there may be some suspicion involved. Fears an army of ‘juggernauts’…
Using alliances to destabilize market values
T KippenbergerWarns that managers who base strategic alliances on the popular marriage metaphor are mistaken — especially in fast‐moving markets. Bases research on consulting work in…
When polygamy is better than monogamy (strategic alliances)
T KippenbergerSuggests that multi‐partner strategic alliances can give rise to intense competition, create new forms of rivalry within industries and also change industry structures. Comments…
Keiretsu — a very Japanese form of ‘alliance’
T KippenbergerInvestigates Keiretsu (or link, affiliate with, connect to) and its two forms, horizontal and vertical. Highlights a panel that explains the background to Keiretsu in Japan from…