Forming Alliances
Shaping Identities
Published in February 2008
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4051-2920-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Forming Alliances" provides evidence that some firms form alliances in part motivated by the wish to change their organizational identity.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
§ Final year undergraduate students taking courses on organization;§ Research students (MPhil, PhD) studying alliances;§ MBA students taking modules on strategy and organization, transformation and change, and organizational identity;§ Managers attending
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2920-6 (9781405129206)
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Person
Lin S. Lerpold is Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Her professional experience includes years of international strategic planning, project management, and consulting within the international oil industry.
Content
PROPOSED TABLE OF CONTENTS.Introduction. Part I The rationale behind cooperation.Chapter 1 Economic and strategic perspectives on alliance formation Chapter 2 Institutional, social, and cognitive perspectives on alliance formation Part II The BP and Statoil Alliance.Chapter 3 An industry, two partners, and an alliance.Chapter 4 The many motives behind the BP and Statoil Alliance.Chapter 5 Knowledge transfer and associated image as alliance formation motives.Chapter 6 Inter-organizational identity adaptation and the BP and Statoil alliance.Chapter 7 A dynamic model of inter-organizational identity adaptation.Chapter 8 Alliance identities and sensemaking. Part III Conclusions.Chapter 9 Towards an organizational identity theory of alliance formation.Chapter 10 Practical and managerial implications.