Firms have a variety of possible mechanisms for preventing competitors to take advantage of their investment in knowledge capital. The availability and effectiveness of these mechanisms varies across firms. This paper aims at understanding the impact of trust on secrecy efficiency. The...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effect of national culture on the capacity of small and medium-sized biotechnology enterprises to protect their intellectual assets by analysing the mediator role of environmental scanning behaviour. The extent to which environmental scanning behaviour...

Strategic alliances are characterized by inherent instability arising from uncertainty regarding a partner’s future behaviour and the absence of a higher authority to ensure compliance. Consequently, when firms adopt these strategies, they are confronted with a relational risk. This paper...

When firms use alliance relationships, important decisions they must make concern: (1) How the alliance should develop in order to accomplish the parent firms’ objectives; (2) How they can manage relational risks in the alliance relationship. In order to find an answer to these problems,...

L'asymétrie entre les partenaires représente une dimension pouvant affecter le management des relations d'alliance. L'asymétrie résulte souvent du différentiel de taille entre les organisations, cause de multiples disparités tant en termes de culture, de pouvoir ou de compétences. Peu...

The article determines which conflict resolution mechanisms are constructive and which are destructive, through analysing contractual agreements in European biotechnology enterprises. In the article, the term mechanism is used to refer to tools or the way in which conflicts are resolved....