Presenting a Model for Analyzing the Risks of Strategic and Technological Alliances

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University of Tehran

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Technological alliance is an intelligence solution to obtaining the strategic goals of firms. While the trend of this type of collaboration is increasing, the failure rate is still high. The high rate of risk is due to the nature of internal cooperation of organizations in technological alliance. Most analytical methods and models consider the sources of risk in alliance process in two types: relational and functional risks. In this paper, the resources of risk are identified in the phases of strategic alliance process based on the literature. Then the level of importance of differenr phases of alliance and their influence on the success of alliance is weighted in a checklist by expert panel through Delphi technique. The method used in this study is design science with method output and design precision strategy using two Delphi panel rounds. The results show that risk factors in each phases of alliance are not the same and also the same risk factors in different phases of alliance process do not have the same weights. The aim of this paper is to present a flexible, dynamic and reliable method for alliance risk assessment, including identification, analysis and evaluation of risk resources. Proposing a structured method that can predict and estimate the level of risk for each phase of alliance based on the opinions of the employees and stakeholders of two sides of alliance is a significant result of this study.

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Innovation Management Journal
Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 13
December 2015
Pages 119-140

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  • Receive Date: 08 February 2015
  • Accept Date: 11 October 2015

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