Successful Alliances Research Articles

Elevated Parental Stress Is Associated With Lower Self-Efficacy in Provider Communication During a Pandemic

Effective communication between physician and parent promotes a successful alliance with families. The association of parental stress with self-efficacy when communicating during parent-physician interactions is unknown in the context of a pandemic. Objectives of this study include quantifying and comparing the stress experienced by parents of hospitalized children before and after onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and examining the relationship of stress with self-efficacy in parent-physician communication during interactions throughout hospitalization. We conducted in-person surveys of parents of children aged 3 months to 17 years hospitalized at a quaternary-level children's hospital, before and after onset of COVID-19. Parents completed 2 validated tools: Parenting Stress Index (PSI-SF) and the Perceived Efficacy in Parent-Physician Interactions (PEPPI), measuring self-efficacy in communicating with physicians. Socioeconomic data were collected. Fisher exact test and t test were used to compare score proportions and means; linear regression was used to evaluate association between PSI-SF and PEPPI with confounder adjustments. Forty-nine parents were recruited; the majority identified as non-White and female. An inverse relationship was noted between the total stress score and parental self-efficacy, which only attained statistical significance in the post-COVID-19 cohort (P = .02, multivariate P = .044). A significant increase in the mean was observed for subscale scores of Difficult Child (P = .019) and Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interaction after COVID-19 (P = .016). Elevated parental stress is associated with decreased self-efficacy during parent-physician interactions and it worsened during the pandemic. Future studies should examine the effect of different communication styles on parental stress and self-efficacy during hospitalization.

Distributionally robust dispatching of multi-community integrated energy system considering energy sharing and profit allocation

Community energy consumption accounts for a large proportion of total social energy consumption. Therefore, community integrated energy systems have emerged to satisfy these demands. However, limited resource allocation of the integrated energy system in a single community is possible because of poor anti-interference and insufficient photovoltaic absorption. A distributionally robust optimal dispatching model was proposed for the joint operation of multiple community integrated energy systems, and the energy sharing and joint demand response among communities were considered. Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence was used to describe the ambiguity set of photovoltaic output probability distribution. When the photovoltaic output prediction error obeyed the extreme probability distribution of ambiguity set, the minimum operation cost of multi-community was solved. Furthermore, to ensure successful alliance of multi-community cooperative alliance, a profit allocation mechanism based on the improved Shapley value was proposed to reallocate the excess return fairly. Finally, a typical multi community integrated energy system was simulated and analysed. The results revealed that energy sharing and joint demand response improve the economy of multi community operation, and the coordination of system robustness and economy of the model was realised. The proposed profit allocation mechanism can effectively ensure multi community cooperation.

Parameters for selecting the partners in locally owned renewable energy small-scale project for achieving energy security in Atlantic Canada

Several countries throughout the world are pursuing energy security as a means of ensuring that their economies operate smoothly and that their citizens have access to appropriate, reliable, and economical supply of clean energy. Because most of the rural communities across the globe rely heavily on non-renewable sources for their domestic needs, hence there is a risk of energy insecurity and vulnerability. This research aims to define a set of parameters for a successful strategic alliance in ensuring energy security in the rural and remote communities of Atlantic Canada. This research was split into two halves. The first study focused on a literature review on strategic alliance measures for achieving energy security, item development, and factor structure exploration. For successful strategic alliance constructs on a sample of 98 small-scale energy project owners, followed by reliability and validity checks. Study 2 seeks to identify the correlation among the partner's characteristics, set of parameters, and alliance performance with the help of regression analysis. Based on data from locally owned renewable energy small-scale (LORESS) projects in Atlantic Canada, the study discovered a set of parameters for selecting the right partner for energy security. The study discovered that overall alliance performance is significantly correlated with a set of parameters including indigenous process know-how, marketing interest and prominence, efficiency for generating energy, technological know-how, and affordability. The research gives a multi-dimensional tool that can assist in building a successful strategic alliance for achieving energy security. Moreover, it can serve as an aid to the different stakeholders in gauging the success of any strategic alliance in the energy sector.

Building Cross-Border Trade Union Solidarity in the Americas: Putting Organizational Identities at Stake

Purpose:This article considers an in-depth intra-case analysis of a North-South alliance that came into being in the Americas, where the absence of any state power regulating such initiatives makes their emergence more complex. Methodological design:To substantiate this case, some 77 semi-structured field interviews were conducted between 2004 and 2018 with 60 key union representatives in the mining industry. Results: Theyconfirm that a key to the success of transnational alliances lies in the actors’ ability to developa community of risks and fate built around a strong sense of belonging to the group, in opposition to opponents and in the name of clearly defined project and scale. They also confirm that three main levels ofcontingencies have shaped the alliance's evolution. Research limitations: Even though our findings cannot be generalized, wider lessons can be learned from this contribution. Findings:They dissolve the analytical relevance of the North-South cleavage which appears to be overused conceptually. The plasticity of the union responses in terms of transnational solidarity are also strongly rooted in space, time and the contingencies of the moment. Such findings open up an almost limitless field of possibilities for future research and validation in both the North and South.

Neither complements nor substitutes: Examining the case for coalignment of contract-based and relation-based alliance governance mechanisms in coopetition contexts

Although the extant literature recognizes that the contract-based and relation-based alliance governance mechanisms (AGMs) play a significant role in the success of alliances, the nature of their interplay still remains ambiguous. In this study, we move away from the traditional debate between contract- and relation-based AGMs as substitutes versus complements. Instead, we offer the notion of “fit” or the “coalignment” as a more appropriate frame to explain the interplay between contract- and relation-based AGMs in the coopetition context. We conceptualize ‘Coalignment of Alliance Governance Mechanisms’ (CAGM) as a distinct higher-order construct and outline a methodological orientation to estimate the coalignment of the two forms of AGMs. We conduct a longitudinal study using primary data from 320 matched coopetition alliances in high-technology research-intensive sectors in India and find that the CAGM explains better the impact of governance mechanisms on value creation in coopetition alliances.

Towards a multidimensional performance measure for North-South industrial alliances

While the question of the success of alliances is a topic that is widely discussed in the literature, the definition of alliance performance and its measurement are still debatable. Previous research has shown that different measures are mostly global, unidimensional, or narrow in scope. However, the literature suggests that only an adequate combination of indicators should address the multidimensionality of alliance performance. Similarly, the validity of the underlying measures is still doubtful. This is more pronounced in the case of North-South industrial alliances, which have received little interest from researchers. This alliance involves companies from developed countries, in particular European or American ones, and firms from developing countries, such as those from North African countries. The study is intended, in the specific context of North-South alliances, to question the alliance performance concept and to evaluate the construct validity of the measures that define it. A second-order alliance performance construct, measured by financial performance, efficiency, learning and reputation, is then proposed. An empirical investigation was conducted among 136 Tunisian companies in the industrial sector. These companies were engaged in alliances with European and American firms. The validity of performance measures is assessed through reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant tests. The results show that the proposed indicators are valid measures corresponding to different and complementary dimensions. The findings obtained can help alliance managers with a toolkit for evaluating alliance success and recommendations for its operation. The research also contributes to the empirical validation of a second-order alliance performance construct, a result considered as original in a Tunisian context.

Dental Policy Lab 3: towards oral and dental health through partnership

The third and last of the successful Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF)/King's College London Dental Policy Lab series, held in 2019, focused on outlining how dental and oral health industries could benefit from enabling positive behaviour change in patients and the public, allowing progress towards caries reduction. During a two-day event, experts from across public health, dentists, global multi-national corporations and dental industry start-ups discussed the issue, collaboratively developing ideas around policy, technology, messaging and engagement for change. An analysis of the current trends in oral health laid out how the implications for industry and corporate social responsibility were identified as crucial. The report and accompanying infographic explored in this paper have been well received and acted as a catalyst for future developments in the area.

Innovating in Emerging Markets By Building Meaningful it Alliances

Abstract This research examines important firm specific characteristics for the expansion of innovative IT start-ups through strategic partnerships and affiliate networks in the emerging markets of South East (S.E.) Europe. The case of a Greek IT start-up currently seeking to expand in S.E. Europe through partnerships is investigated. The case study analysis reveals that the existence of codified knowledge and the establishment of formal systems and processes enhance successful knowledge transfer in business partnerships and contribute in alliance success. Furthermore, firms should pursue partnerships with reputable firms, while working simultaneously in developing their own reputation that will enable them to more efficiently attract potential business partners. They should also seek for partners with prior collaborative experience in order to increase the development of trust in their alliances which is a critical success factor in business partnerships. In addition, firms should build a team with a diverse academic background and business experience, in order to increase the chances for successful international partnerships. This analysis further enhances the understanding of company characteristics that better position IT startups to form meaningful and successful alliances in emerging markets. Lastly, it provides useful insights on important parameters that startups need to consider and develop in order to more efficiently form strategic partnerships.

PROMOTING GENDER AWARNESS – EFFECTS ON NATO’S STRATEGIC SECURITY

As the terrorist threat and the race for power continues, the most successful alliance is still facing undoubtable risks in its endeavor of maintaining stability – economically, political and most of all, socially. This paper intends to address the gender awareness phenomenon and study its effects on redesigning NATO’s security strategy architecture and reshaping the international relations among political actors. Furthermore, as the NATO 2030 analysis identified several risks and shortcomings of the alliance it is believed that strategically using the Women, Peace and Security Agenda can mitigate and favorably exploit these ‘loose ends’.

Trust in cross-sector alliances: Towards a theory of relational trust in multi-professional education networks

In recent years, partnerships between schools and non-system actors, that is, cross-sector alliances, have become increasingly important in education systems around the world, raising concerns and doubts regarding the influence of non-school actors in educational management and leadership. In these debates, trust is regarded as a key element for the success of cross-sector alliances. Although both trust and cross-sector alliances have been increasingly studied in education research in recent years, an investigation of the role of trust in such relationships is still missing. This article analyzes relational trust in cross-sector alliances in education in order to contribute to further theory building. To this end, it implements a qualitative design based on semi-standardized interviews with 21 individuals responsible for managing an illustrative cross-sector alliance. Interviews are analyzed with the help of an approach based on Grounded Theory. The analyses result in a five-dimensional theory of trust in cross-sector alliances, comprising (1) individual attitude, (2) time, (3) professional affiliation, (4) power, and (5) multiplexity. The theoretical approach developed in this article has practical implications for networked leadership and school principals’ work and training as it provides information regarding the skills and knowledge needed for managing cross-sector alliances.

Entrepreneurial competencies and alliance success: The role of external knowledge absorption and mutual trust

Strategic alliances are an important option for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when obtaining knowledge and information. Although existing studies suggest that entrepreneurial competencies (ECs) enable SMEs to form alliances and achieve alliance success, they overlook the role played by external knowledge absorption and mutual trust. Our study was thus aimed to address this issue by exploring and understanding the relationship between ECs and alliance success. The analysis of survey data drawn from 246 UK manufacturing SMEs suggests that the absorption of external knowledge mediates the relationship between ECs and alliance success. Moreover, mutual trust enhances the strength of the relationship between ECs and external knowledge absorption. By drawing on the relational view, our study contributes to the strategic alliance and SMEs literatures and supports a moderated mediation mechanism.

„МАГАЗИНЧЕ НА ВЪЗМОЖНОСТИТЕ“ – ФОРУМ ЗА ОБМЯНАНА ОПИТ И ИДЕИ

This article presents authors’ concept for a model of working with junior high school students in a new method, called by its founders „Shop of Opportunities“. This model of work enriches the existing interactive approaches to interaction with students that we all know (Step by step, Steps to success, Peers help peers, etc.) and is aimed at improving human intelligence. „Everything in life changes when everyone discovers their intelligences (abilities), when they touch the essence and discover their mission!“ The „Shop of Opportunities“ method was born in the small psychology room at the First Primary School „St. St. Cyril and Methodius“, Gotse Delchev. His life is inspired by the two school psychologists Maria Kalinova and Valentin Atanasov, whose initial idea was to be a forum for the exchange of experience, skills, knowledge and ideas between the participants. One of the main goals of the „Shop of Opportunities“ is to „unlock“ the full potential of human intelligence from an early age. Developing and educating them in children helps to cope with the challenges facing them, turning them into active participants and creators of their own lives. The model is the basis for the success and happiness of every child and enables students to learn effectively, to cope with difficulties independently, to make the right decisions, to resolve conflicts positively, to create lasting friendships, successful alliances, to be more confident in interact with the world around them and be yourself.

Alliance Management Capability in Family Business: Evidence from a Politically Instable Economy

We have a lack of understanding of the role of socioemotional wealth (SEW) in determining the success of alliances formed by family firms. By integrating the SEW of family businesses, and alliance management capability (AMC) of strategic alliance, literature, this study investigates how the extent of SEW in family firms operating in politically unstable contexts influences the development of AMCs, which in turn acts as a determinant of alliance success. By gathering data from 302 family firms in a politically unstable, the Libyan context, we found that the greater the SEW of family firms, the more likely they are to develop three types of AMCs: namely, alliance proactiveness (firms’ ability to identify valuable partners for alliances), alliance coordination (firms’ ability to manage the relationship with alliance partners), and alliance learning (firms’ ability to learn from alliance partners), capabilities, which in turn increases the success of alliances formed by family businesses. We also found that the level of political instability confronted by family businesses positively moderates the positive relationship between the extent of SEW and AMCs. Our results also generate useful practical implications to family businesses, their strategic alliance partners, and policymakers involved in supporting family businesses.

Brand Network Analysis for Identifying Co-Branding and Extension Opportunities

The use of co-branding and brand extension strategies, as a way to gain access to new markets and improve overall brand salience, has grown tremendously in the past few decades. Despite the continued success of alliances between brands belonging to diverse categories, there is surprisingly little research on identifying broader cross-category effects using current digital approaches. In our work, we introduce a new, scalable approach for inferring cross-category branding insights using implicit brand networks on social media. Unlike traditional social networks that involve explicit interaction between the entities, links within a brand network are implicit and arise due to common followership between brands on Twitter. Asymmetry among brand pairs is taken into account to calculate the transcendence of brands onto new categories. Transcendence of a brand along any given category is defined as the extent to which its followers overlap with other brands from that category. Asymmetry is also leveraged to show which brands will benefit more from a cobranding alliance. Overall, the analysis is conducted at different time periods to track shifts in brand transcendence and investigate its impact on co-branding opportunities. All findings are validated against external survey ratings and extensive robustness checks are conducted.

Core Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in Malaysia

The purpose of this research is to examine the ways Malaysian companies deal with strategic alliance and to identify the relationships between the resources and type of strategic alliance (strategic partners). Besides that, the objective of this research is to look into the influence of the resources, type of strategic alliance, coopetition of alliance member and key success factors onto the alliance performance. Indeed, the construction of this research depends on the exploration of these relationships, which induce the objectives of this research. The resource-based theory is applied to find out what are the phenomena of strategic alliance in the last five years. The coopetition relationship may affect the performance of alliance. How should companies assess the right type of alliance before partnering with others? What should be the factors leading to the success of alliance? From the empirical findings, many conclusions can be made. Firstly, there is a weak relationship between type of strategic alliances (strategic partners) and core resources. Secondly, the type of alliance has weak significance to alliance performance. Thirdly, there is no evidence to support the relationships between alliance performance and the type of coopetition. Next, the relationship between alliance performance and the key success factors is not supported. Besides that, the type of alliance has weak influence in the alliance performance while the relationship is controlled by coopetition. In addition, the weak effect of the relationships of alliance performance and type of alliance is controlled by the key success factors. How to Cite this Article Pubmed Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in SRP. 2020; 11(1): 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 Web Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in http://www.sysrevpharm.org/?mno=128590 [Access: March 28, 2021]. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 AMA (American Medical Association) Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in SRP. 2020; 11(1): 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 Vancouver/ICMJE Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in SRP. (2020), [cited March 28, 2021]; 11(1): 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 Harvard Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid (2020) Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in SRP, 11 (1), 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 Turabian Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. 2020. Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, 11 (1), 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 Chicago Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. Core Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in Malaysia. Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy 11 (2020), 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 MLA (The Modern Language Association) Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid. Core Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in Malaysia. Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy 11.1 (2020), 972-981. Print. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124 APA (American Psychological Association) Style Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid (2020) Resources and Strategic Alliance: Investigating the Alliances Performance in Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy, 11 (1), 972-981. doi:10.5530/srp.2020.1.124

PRACTITIONER APPLICATION: Characteristics of Successful Health Alliance Strategies: Evidence from Rural Healthcare Experiences

In the article, the author discusses the characteristics and benefits of successful health alliance strategies by presenting evidence from rural healthcare in the U S Also cited are how the COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities to improve access to healthcare and promote strategic alliances, and the report by the National Rural Health Resource Center showing the trends and disruptors in rural healthcare environment

Characteristics of Successful Health Alliance Strategies: Evidence From Rural Healthcare Experiences.

The formation of regional strategic alliances continues to be a well-evidenced response to a varying array of market forces that are challenging the ability of healthcare institutions to realize their missions. Organizations that serve rural communities especially feel pressure to initiate the formation of these collaborative arrangements.In response to concerns of Pennsylvania legislators regarding the impact of these alliances on rural healthcare entities, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania funded a study of outcomes of regional strategic alliances involving rural healthcare institutions. Although the research focused on outcomes, the data also revealed organizational characteristics and patterns of decisions and actions that separated rural healthcare institutions with greater alliance outcome success from their peers serving other rural communities. Strategic leadership and interorganizational management expertise serve as the foundation for decisions and actions beginning before an active search for an alliance and culminating with the achievement of alliance goals. Commitments to collaborative leadership, purposeful partnership, coordination, and progress thematically represent the series of critical decisions and actions collectively required to achieve strategic alliance success. The case of the Laurel Health System illustrates these commitments.Although the findings are based on an intensive review of regional strategic alliances involving rural healthcare institutions, the lessons presented here are transferable to community healthcare organizations regardless of location.

Coopetitive innovation alliance performance: Alliance competence, alliance’s market orientation, and relational governance

High-technology firms often partake in coopetitive alliances toward improving their innovation performance. As relational governance contributes significantly to explaining the coopetitive alliance success, this research examines the facilitation of relational governance in coopetitive alliances. Drawing from social contract theory, we propose that alliance’s market orientation (AMO) is a means to establish social and cooperative norms, which in turn, increases the viability of relational governance. The analysis of 246 coopetitive innovation alliances among firms in high-technology industries reveals that alliance competence is an important antecedent to AMO, and AMO plays a key role in facilitating relational governance toward improving alliance performance. Furthermore, environmental turbulence enhances the positive influence of relational governance.

Strategic alliances, exploration and exploitation and their impact on innovation and new product development: the effect of knowledge sharing

PurposeThis study delves in the controversy about the nature and the sign of the effect of strategic alliances and exploration and exploitation capabilities on innovation and new product development. The paper analyses the effects of knowledge sharing and strategic alliances relationships at the firm level. Specifically, we study the influence of strategic alliances relationships in new product development and the mediating role of exploration and exploitation as dynamic capabilities.Design/methodology/approachThis investigation proposes a theoretical model tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). The multigroup analysis was performed to understand the moderating role of. A questionnaire survey was developed to explore the relations between strategic alliances and innovation and new product development variables. For this study, 387 valid questionnaires were collected from a sample of Portugal SME' firms. A 90-item questionnaire was submitted to employees managers of a large number of Portuguese SMEs, which consists to study the relationships among all the variables.FindingsThe results show that exists a positive direct influence of strategic alliances on innovation and new product development, and mediating impact the exploration and exploitation by the moderating role of knowledge sharing.Research limitations/implicationsThis study has some methodological limitations affecting its potential contributions. A cross-sectional study that captures one image in time and its ability to identify strict causality between variables is limited. Furthermore, the results are based on log collected from a key respondent, rather than broader actual data. The results are restricted to one country, Portugal. Future research should initially target different countries. Such research could then test the generalizability of the results.Practical implicationsTo fill this managerial relevance gap, we propose a process model in which the main antecedents of alliance stability will be examined. We argue that an alliance's evolutionary dynamics depend on these factors and variables that the partners must assess and manage over its developmental stages. In this sense, managers have significant scope to influence the ultimate success of strategic alliances. This study highlights the need to actively manage the cooperation – competition (coopetition) tension with the alliance partner and to apply the knowledge acquired from the partner to create new knowledge to enhance innovative performanceOriginality/valueThis paper contributes to fill the gap between strategic alliances and new product development mediated by exploration and exploitation in the dynamic capabilities view.

How Entrepreneurial Orientation Affects R&D Alliance Performance

Alliance success or failure has been one of hot topics in strategic management area. This study attempts to examine how the firm-level factor—entrepreneurial orientation of focal firm affects alliance outcomes. Furthermore, it also aims to investigate how uncertainty sources (competitive intensity and entrepreneurial orientation firm’s dependence on its partner) condition the entrepreneurial orientation- alliance performance relationship. Survey data from 196 R&D alliances in China indicates that the relationship of entrepreneurial orientation and alliance performance displays an inverted U-shape. Meanwhile, this relationship is negatively moderated by competitive intensity and entrepreneurial orientation firm’s dependence on its partner. This study highlights the dual role of entrepreneurial orientation in R&D alliance, providing new insights for explaining the inconsistent conclusion on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and alliance performance. Besides, it also has a more thorough understanding of how different levels of EO in R&D alliance affect alliance performance by incorporating external and internal uncertainty sources–competitive intensity and entrepreneurial orientation firm’s dependence on its partner–into the boundary conditions.