The bearable lightness of inter-firm strategic alliances: resource-based and procedural contracting

Grandori, A and Furlotti, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-9547, 2006. The bearable lightness of inter-firm strategic alliances: resource-based and procedural contracting. In: Ariño, A and Reuer, J, eds., Strategic alliances: governance and contracts. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 31-41. ISBN 9781403995926

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Abstract

This paper inquires into how contracts can regulate the complex and uncertain matters on which strategic alliances get formed. It highlights that contracts can be 'light' without being mistakenly incomplete. It is argued that the contracts constituting and regulating strategic alliances are composed by an associational core, focused on resource commitments and on the specification of property rights, broadly intended; and of a belt of contractual clauses incorporating a variety of coordination mechanisms (including, and actually privileging, joint decision making procedures). The interpretive power of the framework is illustrated through the analys is of three alliance contracts.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Creators:	Grandori, A. and Furlotti, M.
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:	London
Date:	2006
ISBN:	9781403995926
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	05 Feb 2018 11:30
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2018 11:30
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32627

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