Building firm capabilities through learning: the role of the alliance learning process in alliance capability and firm-level alliance success

摘要: In recent years, academics and managers have been very interested in understanding how firms develop alliance capability greater success. this paper, we show that an learning process involves articulation, codification, sharing, internalization of management know-how is positively related to a firm's overall Prior research has found with dedicated function, which oversees coordinates activity, paper suggest such function also process, partly mediates the relationship between success observed prior work. This implies acts as one main mechanisms through leads Our extends by taking first step opening up ‘black box’ We use survey data from large sample U.S.-based their alliances test our theoretical arguments. Although only examine its firm-level success, make important contribution on knowledge-based view firm dynamic capabilities general conceptualizing key aspects, empirically validating impact performance. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.