Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Duysters, Geert
Author-Email: duysters@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Lemmens, Charmianne
Author-Email: lemmens@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Letterie, Wilko
Author-Email: w.letterie@os.unimaas.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Maastricht University
Author-Name: Vanhaverbeke, Wim
Author-Email: wim.vanhaverbeke@uhasselt.be
Author-Workplace-Name: Hasselt University
Title: The Innovative Performance of Alliance Block Members: Evidence from the 
	 Microelectronics Industry
Abstract: The primary goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of the 
	 complex relationship between the positioning of companies in alliance 
	 networks and their innovative performance. In particular, we expect that 
	 a firm's innovative performance depends partly on its position in 
	 specific network settings (block membership or nonblock membership), 
	 with additional effects caused by the technology positioning strategies 
	 firms pursue in terms of technological specialization in alliance 
	 blocks. Alliance groups derive their competitive advantage from their 
	 superior and particular technologies, which they develop and exploit 
	 together in the alliance blocks. Incorporating this moderating effect 
	 of the degree of technological specialization in alliance blocks 
	 (exploitation or exploration) seems to give more insight in the 
	 contextual issues in this stream of literature.
Classification-JEL: L14, L63, O31, O32 
Keywords: strategic technology alliances, alliance block membership strategy,
	 microelectronics industry, innovative performance, technology strategies 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 2008-064
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-064.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008064