The need for scale as a driver of alliance formation: choosing between collaborative and autonomous production

Bernard Garrette (), Xavier Castaner () and Pierre Dussauge ()

No 821, HEC Research Papers Series from HEC Paris

Abstract: In this paper, the authors reconsider why firms choose to form horizontal alliances when launching a new product rather to undertake such a project on their own.

Keywords: alliance formation; autonomous production; collaborative production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2006-03-07
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