scholarly journals Analyzing the Effects of Knowledge Resource Complementarity Structures on the Choice between Strategic Alliances and Merge and Acquisitions (M&As) in Information Technology Industries

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Byounggu Choi
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Knowledge Resource ◽  
Resource Complementarity ◽  
Technology Industries

The Essential Trinity

2014 ◽  
pp. 270-282
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
High Tech ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Technology Industries

Successful high-tech industries can be understood as ecosystems of enterprises and related organizations that are geared to develop platforms of global products, processes, and services; these platforms, by turn, are based on solid industrial architectures. This is called the Essential Trinity concept. In this way, the main objective of this chapter is twofold: first, to argue that information technology industries in developing countries, such as Brazil, can be understood through the Essential Trinity concept; and second, to argue also that the main characteristic of this industry in developing countries is that it has been historically organized only in terms of ecosystems of enterprises and related organizations, without developing either platforms of global products, processes, and services, or solid industrial architectures. In order to develop these arguments, the chapter presents the case of the IT industry in the state of Pernambuco (Northeast of Brazil), particularly through the development of its Porto Digital IT Park, as an example of an “unfinished essential trinity.”

Leveraging IT and Business Network by a Small Medical Practice

2011 ◽  
pp. 184-198
Author(s):  
S. Poon ◽  
D. May
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Medical Clinic ◽  
Barriers To Success ◽  
Business Network ◽  
The Web

This case discusses how a small specialist medical clinic (named ECS) tries to stay competitive by applying innovations through information technology and the Web. The barriers to success include the lack of financial and human resources but through forming strategic alliances, it managed to implement some systems prototypes.

Autonomy or International Cooperation? The Japanese Space Industry Responds to U.S. Pressure

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungjoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
The Government ◽  
Technology Industries ◽  
Autonomous Development ◽  
High Technology Industries ◽  
The U.S

The examination of the U.S.—Japan conflicts from the mid-1980s to early 1990s over the space industry sheds light on our understanding of the Japanese political economy. The Japanese response to U.S. pressure was not so strategic as conventional wisdom suggests. Under U.S. pressure, Japan shifted to international cooperation, abandoning the autonomous development policy it had sought for four decades. This unexpected policy change primarily resulted from the lack of clear jurisdictional authority among the government actors over the rapidly changing space industry. This study's findings will apply to other high technology industries such as telecommunications and information technology, where bureaucratic boundaries are ambiguous and technological change is rapid.

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