Download or read book Non-Cooperation — The Dark Side of Strategic Alliances written by W. Suen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What influences your partners' attitudes toward your alliance? What factors allow them to act on non-cooperative impulses? How can you structure your alliance to reduce opportunities for non-cooperation? This book explores the influences on a firm's attitudes toward its alliance, and highlights the connections between these factors. The book defines a framework to measure power and interdependence to determine which firms are able to act on non-cooperative impulses, and case studies illustrate how alliances may be structured to reduce opportunities for non-cooperation.