Alliances and Joint Ventures: Organizational

摘要: Alliances are voluntarily initiated and enduring relationships between two or more organizations that involve the sharing, exchange, codevelopment of resources. Joint ventures a type alliances in which partners create new entity they both hold equity. The article highlights study all such interorganizational ties from sociological perspective stresses importance social networks firms embedded on subsequent enter. It discusses three core issues associated with ties: formation—which enter whom do partner, governance—what factors influence governance structure use to formalize their ties, performance—what performance entering ties. structural embeddedness perspectives introduced offers many promising directions for future research dyadic, network, societal level evolution partnerships.