Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Belderbos, Rene
Author-Email: rene.belderbos@econ.kuleuven.be
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University,
	 and Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, Katholieke Universiteit
	 Leuven
Author-Name: Gilsing, Victor
Author-Email: v.a.gilsing@uvt.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Department for Organization Studies and Centre for Innovation Research (CIR),
	 Tilburg University
Author-Name: Jacob, Jojo
Author-Email: jacob@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Technology alliances in emerging economies: Persistence and interrelation in 
	 European firms' alliance formation
Abstract: We analyze patterns and determinants of technology alliance formation 
 	with partner firms from emerging economies, with a focus on European 
 	firms' alliance strategies. We examine to what extent European firms' 
 	alliance formation with partners based in emerging economies is 
 	persistent, that is: to what extent prior collaborative experience 
 	determines new alliance formation, and we compare this pattern with 
 	alliance formation with developed country partners. Second, we examine 
 	to what extent prior engagement in international alliances with partners 
 	from developed countries increases the propensity to form technology 
 	alliances with partners based in emerging economies and vice versa 
 	(interrelation). We find that both persistence and interrelation effects 
 	are present, and that they are generally not weaker for emerging economy 
 	alliances. Alliance formation with Indian and Chinese firms is 
 	significantly more likely if firms have prior alliance experience with 
 	Japanese firms. The findings suggest that firms extend their alliance 
 	portfolio from developed to emerging economies, increasing the 
 	geographic diversity of their alliance portfolio and building on their 
 	prior international alliances experience.
Classification-JEL: M21, O32, O33, O52, O53
Keywords: Alliances, Persistence, Interrelation, Emerging economies
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 026
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-026.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2011026