Abstract

The management revue is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary European journal publishing both qualitative and quantitative work as well as purely theoretical papers that advance the study of management, organisation and industrial relations.

Highlights

  • The last two decades have witnessed an increasing number of inter-firm partnerships, as firms have had to deal with rapidly changing environments while competing effectively in the global market place

  • Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firms suggests that only firms with valuable, rare, imitable, and non-substitutable resources and capabilities achieve sustainable competitive advantages (Barney 1991; Peteraf 1993)

  • I will offer a critical assessment of the role of strategic alliances in gaining sustainable competitive advantage through building knowledge assets

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Refik Culpan*

The Role of Strategic Alliances in Gaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage for Firms**. This article offers a critical assessment of the role of strategic alliances in gaining sustainable competitive advantage through building knowledge assets. To do so, it develops a conceptual model, in which three key concepts: the role of “knowledge assets” in gaining “sustainable competitive advantage” via “strategic alliances” between firms are defined and related to each other. It develops a conceptual model, in which three key concepts: the role of “knowledge assets” in gaining “sustainable competitive advantage” via “strategic alliances” between firms are defined and related to each other It argues core competencies and dynamic capabilities of firms depend on knowledge assets of the firm.

Introduction
Knowledge assets of the firm
Strategic alliances
Types of Strategic Alliances
Sustainable competitive advantage
Knowledge Acquisition Methods
Concluding remarks
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