Which Factor Matters to the Formation of Strategic Alliance Network: Industry, Firm or Network?

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  • 戦略的提携ネットワークの形成要因：産業要因か，企業要因か，ネットワーク要因か？
  • センリャクテキ テイケイ ネットワーク ノ ケイセイ ヨウイン : サンギョウ ヨウイン カ,キギョウ ヨウイン カ,ネットワーク ヨウイン カ?

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This article picks up an inter-industry alliance network to investigate which factor matters to the formation of a strategic alliance network. For this purpose, we develop and compare three models that explain the network formation by firm factors, industry factors and network factors, respectively. The inter-industry alliance network data is obtained from “Pointo Tanken Kurabu (point exploration club),” a Japanese portal site dealing with reward pointprograms and electronic money, in March 2010. The data depicts exchange relationships among reward point programs and electronic money from 16 industries and is represented as a directed network data containing 155 nodes and 665 ties. The estimation is executed by Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. The results show that all three factors affect the alliance behavior of firms. The firm factor model explains the alliance behavior the most. The results also reveal that the alliance relationship in this network is asymmetrical and that this network has the scale-free characteristics. In addition, more constrained dyads-dyads with more redundant relations-have stronger tendencies to connect. This implies that firms in this alliance network pursue rents by forming close groups rather than by brokering fragmented relations.

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  • Organizational Science

    Organizational Science 47 (1), 69-79, 2013

    The Academic Association for Organizational Science

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