From Alliance Practices to Alliance Capitalism: New Strategies for Management and Partnership

326 Pages·1998·6.24 MB·German

by  Sabine Urban (auth.)

Urban
From Alliance Practices to Alliance Capitalism
Sabine Urban (Ed.)
From Alliance Practices
to Alliance Capitalism
New Strategies for Management
and Partnership
With the contributions of:
Peter Eichhorn, Johann Engelhard & Christian Blei,
Hans-Georg Gemiinden & Thomas Ritter, Ta'ieb Hafsi,
Marc Ingham & Caroline Mothe, Wim Kosters &
Ansgar Belke, Marina Ricciardelli, Waldfried Schliesser,
Horst Steinmann & Brigitte Kustermann, Jim Stewart
GABLER
Sabine Urban is a Professor at Strasburg University (Robert Schuman) and heads the
CESAG (Centre of Managerial Research)/I.E.C.S. which is affiliated to it. She teaches
international economics and corporate strategies in several universities both in France
and abroad, and is in charge of the International Commerce degree at the LE.C.S.
European Management School. She sits on the board of several industrial and financial
firms. Her main research fields are International Business and European economy.
Acknowledgement
The editor is grateful to the Societe des Amis des Universite de I' Academie de Strasbourg
and to the Conseil General du Bas-Rhin for their financial support.
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Preface
The current work is the fifth volume in the series "Europe's Economic Future",
edited by Strasbourg's Robert Schuman University, under the direction of
Professor Sabine Urban, head of the CESAG-IECS research center. The authors
are professors of universities representing a wide range of horizons: Austria,
Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy. They share the common experience
of having served as visiting professors at Robert Schuman University (IECS
Strasbourg) during the 1996-97 academic year.
The theme of this volume is a subject which is timely in Europe and in the rest
of the world: new strategic manoeuvres ranging from multiple forms of
partnership to a new form of capitalism ("Alliance Capitalism"). Theoretical
concepts, as well as modes of action, are rapidly evolving, following logic
systems that remain imprecise but create complex forms of solidarity and
interdependence. This work aims to light the way for the observer and the
decision-maker alike.
Sabine URBAN
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Contents
Contributors 9
1. From Alliance Practices to Alliance Capitalism. On the Way to a
New Paradigm?
Sabine Urban 15
2. Environment, Resources and the Performance of Cooperative
Strategies
Taieb Hafsi 31
3. Determinants of Organizational Learning and Result Appropriation
in R&D Cooperation
Marc Ingham and Caroline Mothe 63
4. The Impact of Radical Environmental Change on a Company's
Network Activities: An Empirical Study in East and West Germany
Hans-Georg Gemiinden and Thomas Ritter 95
5. German-Hungarian Joint Ventures -Unstable from the Beginning?
Johann Engelhard and Christian Blei 131
6. International Insurance Networks in Europe
Waldfried Schliesser 167
7. Financial Institutions, Networking and Industrial Development
Jim Stewart 201
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8. The Public Private Partnership
Peter Eichhorn 225
9. Management Theory on the Way to a New Paradigm?
Critical Reflections on the Concept of Robert Simons
Horst Steinmann and Brigitte Kustermann 241
10. On the Employment Impacts of European Monetary Union
Wim Kosters and Ansgar Belke 275
11. Europe's troubled path towards an employment policy
Marina Ricciardelli 301
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Contributors
Peter Eichhorn born 1939, is Professor of Business Administration and
Public Management at Mannheim University since
1981 (1984/85 Dean of the Faculty), before that Profes
sor at the Free University of Berlin (1972), Chairholder
(1972-78) and President (1976/77) at Postgraduate
School of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Chair
holder at University of Erlangen-Niirnberg (1978-81).
Studies at universities in Wiirzburg, Berlin and
Erlangen-Niirnberg (1964 Dipl.-Kfm., 1967 Dr.rer.
pol.), 1967/68 Research Fellow at Harvard Business
School and University of California, Berkeley. Scholar
of the German National Scholarship Foundation.
President of the Federal Association of German
Academies for Advanced Training in Business and
Public Administration, Frankfurt (since 1981), Chair
man of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Associa
tion of Public Economy, Berlin (since 1992). Distin
guished Scholar at Nuffield College Oxford University
(1986), Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, Milan
(1989), Nippon University, Tokyo (1990), Robert
Schuman University, Strasbourg (1994-97). Numerous
publications on Public Management (Government,
Administration, Public Enterprises), Nonprofit Orga
nizations, Corporate Social Accounting and Environ
mental Management.
Johann Engelhard born 1950, is Full Professor and Chairholder for
Business Administration and International and Euro
pean Management at Otto-Friedrich-University of
Bamberg (Germany). His research interests include
theory of internationalization processes of firms,
transformation processes in Eastern Europe, manage
ment consequences of Western European Integration,
overseas assignments, corporate governance and
management ethics. He is co-editor of MIR Edition.
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Recent publications: "Strategische Fiihrung inter
nationaler Unternehmen" (ed.), "Interkulturelles Ma
nagement" (ed.).
Christian Blei is research assistant at the chair of Prof.
Dr. J. Engelhard (business administration, speciali
zing in European management). He deals during his
graduation with the stability of German East-West
joint ventures in transition economies. His thesis is
funded by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs,
the foundation "Stiftung Industrieforschung", and
the University of Bamberg.
Hans-Georg Gemiinden is Director of the Institute for Applied Management
Science and Corporate Strategy of the University of
Karlsruhe. He received his "Diplomkaufmann" (equi
valent to an MBA) and his Dr. at the University of
Saarbriicken, his habilitation degree at the University
of Kiel. He has published several books and
numerous articles in the fields of innovation and
technology management, marketing, business policy
and strategy, project management, human informa
tion behaviour and accounting. Actual research pro
jects focus on Success Factors of Project Manage
ment, Innovation Management Teams, Technology
Networks, Key Persons and Teams in Relationship
Marketing, Technology Transfer, European Research
Consortia, and Entrepreneurship in Cultural Busi
ness Ventures.
Thomas Ritter is researcher at the Institute for Applied
Management Science and Corporate Strategy at the
University of Karslruhe. His main fields of research
are relationships and networks in industrial markets
(business-to-business marketing) and innovation ma
nagement. In particular he analyses the impact of the
management of technology-oriented networking on
a company's inter-organizational collaborations and
on its innovation success. Hereby he focusses on the
concept of network competence as a means to in-
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crease a company's degree of technological inter
weavement.
Tai"eb Hafsi is a full professor of organizational policy at Ecole des
Hautes Etudes Commerciales, University of Montreal.
He has also taught at McGill's faculty of management,
Montreal, and Ecole superieure des sciences econo
miques et commerciales in France. Most of his
research is related to the broad area of managing
complexity, and has included in particular the strate
gic decision-making process in state-controlled orga
nizations, managing divestment, managing strategic
change, and national development strategy. He has
published a large number of articles is such journals
as the Academy of management journal, Administra
tive science quaterly, Journal of management studies,
Interfaces, Revue fran~aise de gestion, Gestion, etc.
He has also authored of co-authored 23 books or
monographs. He holds an Ms from the Sloan school
at MIT and a doctorate in business administration
from the Harvard Business School.
Marc Ingham is Professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain
and Head of the research and teaching unit on Busi
ness policy at lAG (Institut d'administration et de
gestion). He received a Phd in Management sciences
at the Universite de Paris IX Dauphine. He is cur
rently member of the executive Committee of the
Belgian Association for Strategic Management, the
European strategic Planning Federation and Vice
President of the Association Internationale de Mana
gement Strategique. His research and publications
focus on organisational learning processes in the con
text of cooperation and on innovation management.
Caroline Mathe is Assistant Professor at the University
of Paris X and director of the Small Business Admi
nistration Professionnal Institute (Institut Universi
taire Professionnalise d'Administration et Gestion
des PME-PMI). She received a PhD in Management
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Science at the University of Paris X, after having
worked for several years in banking and strategy
consulting. She published a book in 1997 "How to
succeed in a Research and Development partner
ship", L' Harmattan, Paris. Her research and publica
tions focus especially on organizational learning and
resourche theory in the context of technological co
operation and innovation management.
Wim Kosters holds a chair for Economic Theory (monetary eco
nomics and business cycle theory) and the Jean
Monnet chair for European economics as well as the
position of the managing director of the Institute for
the European Economy in the Faculty of Economics
and Business Administration of the Ruhr-University
of Bochum. His main fields of research are monetary
economics (including European monetary integra
tion), international economics (especially trade policy)
as well as economics of employment and labor market
performance.
Ansgar Belke is an assistant at the chair for Economic
Theory in the Faculty of Economics and Business
Administration of the Ruhr-University of Bochum.
From March to May 1997 he was a visitor to the Cen
ter for Economic Research (CentER, Tilburg/NL). His
main fields of research are business cycle theory,
labour market economics, monetary and international
economics.
Marina Ricciardelli is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at "La Sapienza"
University of Rome and a supply Professor at Uni
versity of l'Aquila (Italy). She is a member of ETUC
(European Trade Union Confederation) representing
Italy in the Economic Policy Committee (Brussels), an
expert on fiscal problems on the Economic and Social
Committee of the European Communities.
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