View Of Alliances Research Articles

Military alliances as a stabilising force: U.S. relations with South Korea and Taiwan, 1950s-1960s

ABSTRACT Two broad and seemingly contradictory perspectives exist on U.S. alliances with South Korea and Taiwan. One focuses on how Washington carefully designed the alliances to rein in its overly warlike junior partners, while the other focuses on the surprisingly big influence of Seoul and Taipei that belied the power asymmetry in their relationships with Washington. This paper shows the influence of small allies is not a static feature of asymmetrical alliances designed to restrain them; small allies might exert unduly large influence at the stage of alliance formation, but once the alliance is institutionalised, they may lose much of the initial leverage. The findings lend empirical support to the view of alliances as a stabilising force, rather than a force multiplier, in international politics.

Relationship Between Patient SWAP-200 Personality Characteristics and Therapist-Rated Therapeutic Alliance Early in Treatment.

In the present study, we assess the extent to which patient personality features and prototypes are associated with early treatment therapist-rated alliance. The study sample consisted of 94 patients receiving psychodynamic psychotherapy at an outpatient clinic. Clinicians completed the Working Alliance Inventory (J Couns Psychol 36:223-233; Psychother Res 9:405-423) to assess their views of early alliance and the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure 200 (SWAP-200; Assessment 5:333-353, Am J Psychiatry 161:1350-1365, 1743-1754; Am J Psychiatry 156:258-272, 273-285) to assess patient personality. The SWAP-200 Narcissistic Clinical Prototype, Dysphoric Q-Factor, and Dysphoric/High-Functioning Neurotic Q-Subfactor significantly correlated with early therapist-rated alliance. Correlations that trended toward significance were also found. Also identified were specific SWAP-200 items that were found to relate to high early therapist-rated alliance scores. These results demonstrate some relationship, albeit small, between patient personality characteristics and therapists' views of the alliance that may serve to further a conceptual understanding of the alliance, specific personality syndromes, and the associated impact on the therapeutic interaction.

Trainee therapists’ views on the alliance in psychotherapy and supervision: a longitudinal study

ABSTRACTThe shape of alliance in psychotherapy and supervision using growth curve modeling was examined for clinically inexperienced trainee therapists, who were engaged in long-term cognitive behavioral - or psychodynamic individual psychotherapy at a Psychology Clinic in Sweden. Trainee therapists rated their view of the alliance with their clients and their supervisors on the Working Alliance Inventory at five time points. The alliance to the client show a consistent, positive development throughout the therapy. The alliance to the supervisors show initially a decrease, followed by an increase, and then again, the rate of increase in the supervisory alliance ratings slowed down indicating a more complex view of the supervisory alliance compared to the view of the alliance in psychotherapy.

Ambidextrous Views of Alliance and Competitor Orientations: Implications for Product Innovativeness

Recent research has recognized the importance of alliance and competitor orientations in the success of product innovativeness. To date, however, there is no clear evidence as to whether the simult...

Alliance Portfolios And Firm Performance: The Moderating Role Of Firm Strategy And Resources

This paper uses Porter’s generic strategies and the resource-based view of alliances to address the question: which firms benefit more from greater alliance participation? I argue that firms pursui...

Research on Financial Supply Chain From View of Stability

The former research work on material and financial supply chain management has mainly adopted marginal analysis and EOQ model, which are based on the traditional idea of self interest maximization or “Efficiencism”. However, this idea often drives those strong enterprises in a supply chain to occupy their weaker partners’ funds by corporation finance policy; thus results in the break of the monetary flows along the chain. This paper discusses the interest unbalance within such a small system and its negative effects; then proposes a way to resolve it from view of alliance and cooperation. A simple model of stable money flow along supply chain is given. Key words: Financial Supply Chain (FSC); “Efficiencism”; Stability of money flows

What Do Investors Care about in Strategic Alliances? An Empirical Study in the US and Japan

This study investigates investor concerns in the formation of strategic alliances, specifically concerns regarding opportunistic behavior and partner capabilities at the announcement of the alliance. Consistent with prior studies, our results show that both two partners gain in terms of abnormal returns and firm size, but that these benefits disappear within few days following the announcement, indicating that the market takes a dim view of alliances between large companies. The results suggest that investors are mostly concerned with short-term gains from speculation, rather than the ability of the alliance to increase long-term value.

Multi-partner alliance teams for product innovation: The role of human resource management fit

Teams working in multi-partner R&D alliances need a climate that fosters learning, creativity, and innovation to succeed in the joint development of new products. The strategic human resource management (HRM) literature recognizes that aligning human resources practices and those with the corporate strategy facilitate the creation of such a climate. However, the case of multi-partner-alliance teams remains underexplored. Drawing on the relational view of alliances, we emphasize the alignment of human resources practices of multiple partners as a driver of relational performance. We extend the existing literature by explaining how HRM fit may contribute to the generation of a strong climate for product innovation in the setting of multi-partner-alliance teams. To do so, we reconceptualize the traditional HRM fit notion, considering three dimensions (vertical, horizontal, and relational fit) in two levels (partner- and inter-partner-level), and thereby account for the dual nature of the HRM phenomena in collaboration for innovation initiatives.

Patient's and therapist's views of early alliance building in dynamic psychotherapy: Patterns and relation to outcome.

Patients and therapists have somewhat divergent perspectives of alliance. Usually in psychotherapy research, the focus is on the patient's view of alliance, predicting parts of outcome. This study questions this hypothesis by applying the shape-of-change procedure to patient's and therapist's view of alliance-building processes in dynamic psychotherapy. The results of this naturalistic study indicate that none of the 3 patient patterns is related to outcome at the end of psychotherapy, but a specific therapist's pattern--out of 2--is linked to positive symptom change. These results are discussed in the context of present research on therapeutic alliance, especially in terms of level and process, its measurement, and potential in predicting outcome in dynamic psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

The legitimacy of strategic alliances: an institutional perspective

AbstractDrawing on an institutional perspective, this paper suggests that strategic alliances serve an important legitimating function for firms and that this role, mediated by alliance governance structure and partner selection preferences, has a significant influence on firm and alliance performance. A theoretical framework is proposed that identifies five types of legitimacy associated with strategic alliances and the specific conditions under which legitimation may be an important outcome of strategic alliances. Propositions are developed to explain when firms are most likely to enter into alliances for legitimacy purposes and how the legitimating role of strategic alliances contributes to firm and alliance performance. The paper concludes with a summary and implications of a legitimacy‐based view of alliances. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Therapists' Views of Treatment Alliance and Collaboration in Therapy

Therapists' views of alliance were studied using two measures: the CALPAS and the WAI. Component structures were identified in one sample (N = 251) and confirmed in a second (N = 63 therapists, 259 patients) using Perfect Congruence Analysis. Four components were found in the WAI: Shared Goals, Bond, Goal & Task Disagreement, and Therapist Confidence in Treatment. The CALPAS components were Patient Working Engagement, Patient Confidence and Commitment, and Therapist Understanding and Involvement, A joint Therapists' Confident Collaboration was identified, which had the highest correlations with therapist and patient estimates of improvement, and a moderate correlation with the Patients' Confident Collaboration factor found in Hatcher & Barends, 1996. Confident Collaboration is proposed as a key alliance concept. Mit hilfe zweier Instrumente, des CAlPAS und des WAI, wurde die Sicht der therapeutischen Allianz beiterapeuten erhoben. Mit Hilfe einer Kongruenzanalyse wurden in einer Stichprobe (N=251) Struktu...