Resource and Risk Management in the Strategic Alliance Making Process

@article{Das1998ResourceAR,
  title={Resource and Risk Management in the Strategic Alliance Making Process},
  author={Taraknath Das and Bing-Sheng Teng},
  journal={Journal of Management},
  year={1998},
  volume={24},
  pages={21 - 42}
}
  • T. Das, B. Teng
  • Published 1 February 1998
  • Business
  • Journal of Management
Resource-based and risk-based views of strategic alliances have not been adequately reflected in the literature. This paper identifies four types of critical resources that the partners bring to an alliance: financial, technological, physical, and managerial resource. It also suggests two basic types of risk in strategic alliances: relational risk and performance risk. The alliance making process is examined in terms of the interactive effects of resource and risk on the orientations and… 
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