... (Elmuti & Kathawala 2001). The alliances have mostly experienced difficulties that originate from lack of trust, strategic incompatibility, opportunism, deceit, cultural differences and deficient organisational integration. The underlying argument in this paper is that although strategic alliances have become a vital means of doing business in many industries for purposes of achieving competitive advantage, balancing competition and collaboration within the alliance and controlling ... , contractual without shared risks, joint ventures and minority ventures (Table 1 and 2). Table 1: Type...

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