External Sources of Innovative Capabilities: The Preferences for Strategic Alliances or Mergers and Acquisitions
研究了20世纪90年代上半期企业在不同产业、技术和国际环境下，对战略技术联盟、并购或两者混合等外部创新来源的偏好，发现这些选择受环境和企业特定条件（如保护核心业务）的影响。
This paper explores the preferences that companies have as they use alternative (quasi) external sources of innovative competencies such as strategic technology alliances, mergers and acquisitions, or a mix of these. These alternatives are studied in the context of distinct industrial, technological and international settings during the first half of the 1990s. Different strategies followed by companies and the role played by routinized sets of preferences are also taken into consideration. The analysis demonstrates that these options are influenced by both different environmental conditions and firm specific circumstances, such as those related to protecting core businesses.