Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business, and Organizational Issues

Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business, and Organizational Issues

This book brings together some of the latest thinking and research on cooperative strategy. Work in this area has grown rapidly over the last decade, but no single thematic approach has dominated and become the ascendant theory--resource dependency, transaction cost analysis, market power, and game theory have all made significant contributions to the growing literature on strategic cooperation. This book presents chapters from many of these theoretical perspectives and some of the key issues through a number of different lenses. `thought-provoking and challenging' Journal of International Business Studies`this volume accomplishes a remarkable task of presenting important thinking on firms' cooperative strategies - all in a four-hundred-page book' Academy of Management Review`Cooperative Strategy has much to offer, both in terms of the diversity of intellectual perspectives on firms' cooperative arrangements and the forms in which these arrangements manifest themselves' Academy of Management Review David Faulkner Mark de Rond is a lecturer in Management Studies, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at ESSEC, Paris. He was previously a Visiting Professor in Strategic Management at Andrews University, Michigan, USA. He has presented papers at Academy of Management meetings, Strategic Management Society conferences, World Conference of Sociology meeting, and other international conferences.