COMMERCE 4SA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Investment
15 Dec 2013
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Production alliances: a functional alliance in which two or more firms each manufacture products or provide services in a shared or common facility, may utilize a facility one partner already owns. Compatibility select a compatible partner they can trust and with whom they can work effectively, without mutual trust strategic alliance is unlikely to success. Learning potential of the alliance should carefully assess the value of its own information and not provide the other partner with any that will result in competitive disadvantage for itself should the alliance dissolve. Public-private venture special form of jv, one that involves a partnership between a privately owned firms and a government. Access to information limited access to information is another drawback, for collaboration to work effectively one partner may have to provide the other with information it would prefer to keep a secret.
