The role of partnering factors in international learning alliance success

Jeffrey L. Cummings, Stevan R. Holmberg and Qin Yang

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2013, vol. 3, issue 1, 23-49

Abstract: Recent empirical findings and conceptual work point to the importance of partnering-related criteria in dyadic learning-alliance outcomes. Consistent with existing research on alliance partner selection, and building on the literature from organisational learning, knowledge transfer, alliances and international management, this paper develops a new multi-component model of key partnering factors linked to dyadic international learning-alliance outcomes. In order to delineate the model, we develop propositions with the aim of identifying a set of partnering-related criteria that can be used by firms to evaluate potential international learning partners and by future researchers to measure and examine the achievement of learning outcomes. We also fill a literature gap by proposing interpartner harmony as a potential mediator in the relationships between these partnering factors and learning outcomes.

Keywords: international learning alliances; strategic alliances; alliance partner selection; partnering; organisational learning; knowledge transfer; international management; modelling; learning outcomes; interpartner harmony. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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