The Construct of Alliance Management Ability and Its Influence on Alliance Portfolio Performance from the View of Routines

Abstract

Abstract:

Based on the perspective of evolutionary economics routines, this paper conceptualizes and operationalizes alliance management capability through the empirical study. The authors analyze the influence mechanism of alliance experience, alliance structures on alliance management capability, and further demonstrate what impacts alliance management capability, alliance experience and alliance structures have on alliance portfolio performance based on survey data from 212 R&D alliance enterprises in three high-tech zones of Xi'an, Chengdu and Chongqing. The results show that alliance management capability is the multidimensional combination that is composed of a series of alliance practice ability and includes alliance sensing routines, interorganizational coordination routines, alliance portfolio coordination routines, alliance learning routines and alliance transformation routines and alliance management capability directly affects alliance portfolio performance. At the same time, alliance management capability plays full mediating role in the relationship between alliance experience and alliance portfolio performance and plays partial mediating role in the relationship between alliance structures and alliance portfolio performance. In conclusion, the findings of this study not only enrich and complement the research at the network level, but also provide theoretical support for promoting alliance management capability of enterprises.

Key words: alliance routines, alliance management capability, alliance experience, alliance structures, alliance portfolio performance

Liu Jingdong, Du Pengcheng. The Construct of Alliance Management Ability and Its Influence on Alliance Portfolio Performance from the View of Routines[J]. , 2015, 27(8): 150-162.

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