Relationships among resource-dependence, relationship risks, and alliance performancebased on asymmetric competitive strategic alliances

Abstract

Abstract: Through a survey involving some senior executives whose firms have established a asymmetric competitive strategic alliance with other firms from nearly 500 enterprises in the cities of Chongqing, Shenzhen, Xi'an, and other places, a structural equation model is used to study the correlation among the firm's resource-dependence, alliance relationship risks, and alliance performance in asymmetric competitive strategic alliances from an empirical view. The results show that the resource-dependence has a significantly positive correlation effect on alliance relationship risks, and the alliance relationship risks have a significantly negative correlation effect on alliance performance, and the resource-dependence only has a partially negative correlation effect on alliance performance in asymmetric competitive strategic alliances. It shows that the relationships among resource-dependence, relationship risks, and alliance performance are very different in the non-symmetric and symmetric competitive strategic alliances. The enterprises in the alliances should pay more attention to impact of these differences.

Key words: asymmetric competitive strategic alliance, resource-dependence, relationship risk, alliance performance

CLC Number:

F273
F276

Long Yong, Fu Jianwei. Relationships among resource-dependence, relationship risks, and alliance performancebased on asymmetric competitive strategic alliances[J]. Science Research Management, 2011, 32(9): 91-99.

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