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Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research
Author(s) -
He Qile,
Meadows Maureen,
Angwin Duncan,
Gomes Emanuel,
Child John
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.12406
Subject(s) - vision , alliance , multidisciplinary approach , digital transformation , face (sociological concept) , transformation (genetics) , political science , business , sociology , social science , anthropology , biochemistry , chemistry , law , gene
Abstract The emerging digital transformation in the twenty‐first 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 the research questions emerging from an era of digital transformation.