This paper presents the results of a study linking the performance of international joint ventures and alliances set up in the global aerospace industry to their strategic and organizational features. In a first stage, an empirically based taxonomy of the observed alliances is generated. Then,...

(VF)La relation taille-performance a, depuis la fin des années 70, généré peu d’intérêt. Malgré les nombreux travaux consacrés aux fusions-acquisitions et aux alliances stratégiques qui induisent des effets de taille, peu d’auteurs se sont intéressés à l’efficacité comparée...

Recently, a wave of corporate acquisitions has swept across Europe, prompted by liberalisation and unification in the European Union. The authors ask the question: Has this made the traditional preference by European firms for alliances and co-operative strategies obsolete? Bearing in mind that,...