Developing and Managing Collaborative Alliances: Lessons from a review of the literature

Tue, 01/19/2010 - 09:32 — Cristina Sette

Publication Type:

Miscellaneous

Authors:

Deborah Merrill-Sands; Bridgette Sheridan

Source:

Support Program in Organizational Change for the CGIAR Centers. Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change, Boston (1996)

URL:

http://www.trg-inc.com/orgchange/DevManagingPartnership.pdf

Keywords:

alliances; CGIAR; collaboration; ILAC Newsletter; literature review; partnership; review

Abstract:

The intention of this briefing paper is to summarize the diverse literature on strategic alliances and interorganizational collaboration, giving particular emphasis to collaborative R&D. The literature is dispersed across diverse fields and, despite the growing importance of alliances, it is still quite limited. The aim is two-fold: 1) to pull together findings from diverse sources on the relative advantages and disadvantages of this new organizational model as well as on the appropriate conditions for the use of alliances; and 2) to extract from the experiences documented in the literature, relevant lessons for designing, managing, and sustaining effective alliances, particularly in research.

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