In recent years, alliances have become even more popular than mergers and acquisitions. Alliance formation has led to the emergence of interconnected firms, which are embedded in alliance networks. This paper offers a theory of network resources to evaluate the competitive advantage of...

Laying the foundation for competition network theory, this study underscores the differences between competitive and cooperative relations and explains how the network of competitive relations in which a firm is situated can affect its performance. The study extends strategic management research...