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This study investigates the issues of the types, motives, benefits, risks and key determinants of successful inter-firm collaborations in the Chinese and Australian mobile telecommunication markets. Inter-firm collaboration has become increasingly important in the global economy (Lavie 2007). Firms rely on collaborations to access new resources, new technology, skills, latest market information, new markets and knowledge, to increase innovation, to reduce costs, and to overcome government policy barriers. Since 1990 the number of global strategic alliances has grown by more than 25 % annually (Bleeke and Ernst 1995). Inter-firm collaborations between competing firms and firms from different cultural backgrounds increased dramatically in recent years (Vilana and Monroy 2010).

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    Chapter 5 introduced the global telecommunication market and the reason why this industry is studied in this thesis. The following chapters six and seven studied the characteristics of the Chinese and Australian market and answered why these two markets are studied in the thesis.

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Zhang, Y.(. (2014). Introduction. In: Collaboration in the Australian and Chinese Mobile Telecommunication Markets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40151-0_1

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