Keywords
Knowledge-based view of the firm
Resource-based view of the firm
Knowledge
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Abstract
In recent years, strategic alliances have drawn considerable attention in the strategy field. An alliance may be seen as a half-way house on the road from market to hierarchy. This paper examines Grant and Baden-Fuller’s knowledge accessing theory of strategic alliances. Grant and Baden-Fuller argue that the development of an effective knowledge-based theory of alliance formation has been inhibited by a simplistic view of alliances as vehicles for organizational learning, but the primary
advantage of alliances over both firms and mark-ets is in accessing rather than acquiring knowledge
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