This paper reviews recent trends in international strategic alliances, which have grown more than fivefold between 1989 …, purpose and geographical patterns of international alliances during the 1990s as an important aspect of industrial …. While international alliances provide firms with strategic flexibility, enabling them to respond to changing market …

Though alliances and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are both extensively used by companies seeking to achieve the … on the one hand, and inter-firm alliances on the other hand. Both these moves significantly affect a firm's scale and are … thus likely to have an impact on performance. However, the work on M&A or on alliances very rarely compares these …