Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research

Child, John; He, Qile; Gomes, Emanuel; Meadows, Maureen; Angwin, Duncan

Abstract

The emerging digital transformation in the 21st century is rapidly and significantly changing the business landscape. The fast-changing activities, expectations and new modes of collaboration suggest it is time to review the current theoretical insights from Strategic Alliance (SA) research, which are based on assumptions from a different era. We therefore aim to stimulate multidisciplinary debate and theoretical reflections to better understand emerging paradoxes and challenges that contemporary firms face in the formation, evolution and dissolution of strategic alliances. Specifically, we offer alternative visions of SA research and suggest fresh applications or supplements of existing theoretical perspectives and research methods that can better address research questions that are emerging from an era of digital transformation.

Citation

Child, J., He, Q., Gomes, E., Meadows, M., & Angwin, D. (2020). Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research. British Journal of Management, 31(3), 589-617. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12406

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 17, 2020
• Online Publication Date: May 21, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Deposit Date: Apr 23, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 4, 2020
• Journal: British Journal of Management
• Print ISSN: 1045-3172
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-8551
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 589-617
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12406
• Keywords: Management of Technology and Innovation; Strategy and Management; General Business, Management and Accounting
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4328765
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8551.12406