Grant, Robert M.; Baden-Fuller, Charles - In: Journal of Management Studies 41 (2004) 1, pp. 61-84
The emerging knowledge-based view of the firm offers new insight into the causes and management of interfirm alliances …. However, the development of an effective knowledge-based theory of alliance formation has been inhibited by a simplistic view …' desire to acquire knowledge from one another. We argue that the primary advantage of alliances over both firms and markets is …