Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research

Qile He; Maureen Meadows; Duncan Angwin; Emanuel Gomes; John Child

doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12406

Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research

Qile He, Maureen Meadows, Duncan Angwin, Emanuel Gomes, John Child

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Abstract

The emerging digital transformation in the 21st century is rapidly and significantly changing the business landscape. The fast-changing activities, expectations and new modes of collaboration suggest it is time to review the current theoretical insights from Strategic Alliance (SA) research,
which are based on assumptions from a different era. We therefore aim to stimulate multidisciplinary debate and theoretical reflections to better understand emerging paradoxes and challenges that contemporary firms face in the formation, evolution and dissolution of strategic alliances. Specifically, we offer alternative visions of SA research and suggest fresh applications or supplements of existing theoretical perspectives and research methods that can better address research questions that are emerging in an era of digital transformation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	589-617
Number of pages	29
Journal	British Journal of Management
Volume	31
Issue number	3
Early online date	21 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12406
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020

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Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (UID/ECO/00124/2013) by LISBOA‐01‐0145‐FEDER007722 and Social Sciences Data Lab, Project 22209.

Keywords

Strategic alliance
digital transformation
critical perspective
future research
dynamic environments
paradoxes

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