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In tandem with a marked growth in recent years of international intercompany cooperative arrangements of various kinds, it has become fashionable for international business managers and scholars to use the term ‘international strategic alliances’ (ISA) to describe them (James, 1992; Urban and Vendemini, 1992; Bleeke and Ernst, 1993; Faulkner, 1994). ISAs are not a new phenomenon. What is new is their significance to the many companies that have adopted them as tools of competitive strategies (Hamel et al., 1989; Ohmae, 1989; Bleeke and Ernst, 1991; Kanter, 1994; UNCTD, 1994).
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Lu, Y., Burton, F. (1998). Reflections on Theoretical Perspectives of International Strategic Alliances. In: Buckley, P.J., Burton, F., Mirza, H. (eds) The Strategy and Organization of International Business. The Academy of International Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26640-1_9
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