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Alliances are commonly conceived as tools that major powers use to control weaker partners. From this perspective, then, whether alliances endure or collapse depends on the patrons will. Andrea Leva challenges this view: while acknowledging the implications of power asymmetry in inter-allied management, the author argues that junior allies may have a critical role in bringing the alliance to an end. Through an elegant five-case comparison, Leva uncovers the mechanisms at play in junior allies relations with major partners. By shedding light on a previously underscored phenomenon, this book is an important contribution to the theoretical literature on alliances. Andrea Locatelli, Associate Professor, Universit Cattolica, Milan (Italy) In a well-argued book, Andrea Leva sheds light on an overlooked area of alliance theory. Contrary to the realist and institutionalist arguments, Leva suggests that junior allies quest for autonomy and voice opportunity can critically affect their security relationship with the patron, even affecting the alliances persistence or termination. The books model is then applied to several interesting case studies. A must-read for those interested in questioning a simplistic view of asymmetric alliances. Andrea Carati, Associate Professor, Universit degli Studi, Milan (Italy) Military alliances are a constant feature in international politics, and a better understanding of them can directly impact world affairs. This book examines why alliances endure or collapse. As a distinctive feature, it analyses asymmetric alliances focusing on the junior allies decision to continue or terminate a military agreement. It deepens our knowledge of alliance cohesion and erosion, investigating the relevance of the weaker sides preferences and behavior in alliance politics. The author examines the literature on alliance persistence and termination and puts forward a theoretical model that helps interpret historical and contemporary cases in a way that is useful for expert researchers and non-expert readers alike.

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"Managing Interpartner Risks in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Managing Interpartner Risks in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 9 chapters in this volume deal with significant issues relating to the management of interpartner risks in strategic alliances. These risk issues relate to dedicated alliance function and partner-specific experience, cross-border licensing, interfirm alliance structures, a hybrid interpretive scheme for engaging with dark potentialities, solidarity partnerships, prior ties in partner acquisitions, new market entrants in the venture capital industry, and private sector intelligence. The chapters contain empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing interpartner risks in strategic alliances"--

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Strategic alliances (Business) --- Alliances in business --- Business alliances, Strategic --- Corporate alliances --- Strategic business alliances --- Strategic corporate alliances --- Strategic partnerships (Business) --- Partnership --- Business networks

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In 2009, the PRC overtook the USA as the biggest automotive market in the world in production as well as in sales. With economic problems like stagnating real income, rising raw material prices and credit-driven consumerism in the industrial countries the importance of the Chinese market for car companies will even grow. Saturated passenger car markets in the USA and Western Europe and low rates of motorization in new automotive markets like China focus the attention of the market participants on these new, growing markets. The focus of this study is on the passenger vehicle market and lines o

Strategic alliances (Business) --- International business enterprises --- Alliances in business --- Business alliances, Strategic --- Corporate alliances --- Strategic business alliances --- Strategic corporate alliances --- Strategic partnerships (Business) --- Partnership --- Business networks --- Management --- E-books --- Management.

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Strategic alliances (Business) --- Business networks. --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Alliances in business --- Business alliances, Strategic --- Corporate alliances --- Strategic business alliances --- Strategic corporate alliances --- Strategic partnerships (Business) --- Partnership --- Business networks --- E-books