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Cooperation among firms is universally seen as a catalyst of competitive advantages. However, 50 % of alliances fails, often due to the lack of tools and methods to quantitatively track the effects of alliances on firms and to link goals and KPIs outside of traditional organizational boundaries. Nonetheless, performance management and performance measurement have a key role in the assessment of alliance’s goals achievements and of the impact of alliances on firms. This concept has been included in DsNA, a tool for the analysis of strategic partnerships, that we developed with the aim of providing firms, networks’ managers, researchers and policy makers with a more structured and complete information. In particular, the innovative aspect consists of the creation of an online service which enables KPIs monitoring and benchmarking, thus simplifying a possible reconfiguration of network dynamics.
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Bochicchio, M.A., Livieri, B., Longo, A., Di Cagno, P. (2014). DsNA: A Database for Strategic Network Analysis in Italy. In: Baglieri, D., Metallo, C., Rossignoli, C., Pezzillo Iacono, M. (eds) Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07905-9_10
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