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Urban From Alliance Practices to Alliance Capitalism Sabine Urban (Ed.) From Alliance Practices to Alliance Capitalism New Strategies for Management and Partnership With the contributions of: Peter Eichhorn, Johann Engelhard & Christian Blei, Hans-Georg Gemiinden & Thomas Ritter, Ta'ieb Hafsi, Marc Ingham & Caroline Mothe, Wim Kosters & Ansgar Belke, Marina Ricciardelli, Waldfried Schliesser, Horst Steinmann & Brigitte Kustermann, Jim Stewart GABLER Sabine Urban is a Professor at Strasburg University (Robert Schuman) and heads the CESAG (Centre of Managerial Research)/I.E.C.S. which is affiliated to it. She teaches international economics and corporate strategies in several universities both in France and abroad, and is in charge of the International Commerce degree at the LE.C.S. European Management School. She sits on the board of several industrial and financial firms. Her main research fields are International Business and European economy. Acknowledgement The editor is grateful to the Societe des Amis des Universite de I' Academie de Strasbourg and to the Conseil General du Bas-Rhin for their financial support. Die Deutsche Bibliothek -CIP-Einheitsaufnahme From alliance practices to alliance capitalism : new strategies for management and partnership/ Sabine Urban (ed.). With the contributions of: Peter Eichhorn ... -Wiesbaden : Gabler, 1998 Gabler Verlag is a subsidiary company of Bertelsmann Professional Information © Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler GmbH, Wiesbaden, 1998 Publishng editors: Ulrike Uircher / Annegret Heckmann No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, magnetic type, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing form from the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-3-409-12265-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-322-82441-7 001: 10 .1 007/978-3-322-82441-7 Preface The current work is the fifth volume in the series "Europe's Economic Future", edited by Strasbourg's Robert Schuman University, under the direction of Professor Sabine Urban, head of the CESAG-IECS research center. The authors are professors of universities representing a wide range of horizons: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy. They share the common experience of having served as visiting professors at Robert Schuman University (IECS Strasbourg) during the 1996-97 academic year. The theme of this volume is a subject which is timely in Europe and in the rest of the world: new strategic manoeuvres ranging from multiple forms of partnership to a new form of capitalism ("Alliance Capitalism"). Theoretical concepts, as well as modes of action, are rapidly evolving, following logic systems that remain imprecise but create complex forms of solidarity and interdependence. This work aims to light the way for the observer and the decision-maker alike. Sabine URBAN 5 Contents Contributors 9 1. From Alliance Practices to Alliance Capitalism. On the Way to a New Paradigm? Sabine Urban 15 2. Environment, Resources and the Performance of Cooperative Strategies Taieb Hafsi 31 3. Determinants of Organizational Learning and Result Appropriation in R&D Cooperation Marc Ingham and Caroline Mothe 63 4. The Impact of Radical Environmental Change on a Company's Network Activities: An Empirical Study in East and West Germany Hans-Georg Gemiinden and Thomas Ritter 95 5. German-Hungarian Joint Ventures -Unstable from the Beginning? Johann Engelhard and Christian Blei 131 6. International Insurance Networks in Europe Waldfried Schliesser 167 7. Financial Institutions, Networking and Industrial Development Jim Stewart 201 7 8. The Public Private Partnership Peter Eichhorn 225 9. Management Theory on the Way to a New Paradigm? Critical Reflections on the Concept of Robert Simons Horst Steinmann and Brigitte Kustermann 241 10. On the Employment Impacts of European Monetary Union Wim Kosters and Ansgar Belke 275 11. Europe's troubled path towards an employment policy Marina Ricciardelli 301 8 Contributors Peter Eichhorn born 1939, is Professor of Business Administration and Public Management at Mannheim University since 1981 (1984/85 Dean of the Faculty), before that Profes sor at the Free University of Berlin (1972), Chairholder (1972-78) and President (1976/77) at Postgraduate School of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Chair holder at University of Erlangen-Niirnberg (1978-81). Studies at universities in Wiirzburg, Berlin and Erlangen-Niirnberg (1964 Dipl.-Kfm., 1967 Dr.rer. pol.), 1967/68 Research Fellow at Harvard Business School and University of California, Berkeley. Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation. President of the Federal Association of German Academies for Advanced Training in Business and Public Administration, Frankfurt (since 1981), Chair man of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Associa tion of Public Economy, Berlin (since 1992). Distin guished Scholar at Nuffield College Oxford University (1986), Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, Milan (1989), Nippon University, Tokyo (1990), Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg (1994-97). Numerous publications on Public Management (Government, Administration, Public Enterprises), Nonprofit Orga nizations, Corporate Social Accounting and Environ mental Management. Johann Engelhard born 1950, is Full Professor and Chairholder for Business Administration and International and Euro pean Management at Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg (Germany). His research interests include theory of internationalization processes of firms, transformation processes in Eastern Europe, manage ment consequences of Western European Integration, overseas assignments, corporate governance and management ethics. He is co-editor of MIR Edition. 9 Recent publications: "Strategische Fiihrung inter nationaler Unternehmen" (ed.), "Interkulturelles Ma nagement" (ed.). Christian Blei is research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. J. Engelhard (business administration, speciali zing in European management). He deals during his graduation with the stability of German East-West joint ventures in transition economies. His thesis is funded by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs, the foundation "Stiftung Industrieforschung", and the University of Bamberg. Hans-Georg Gemiinden is Director of the Institute for Applied Management Science and Corporate Strategy of the University of Karlsruhe. He received his "Diplomkaufmann" (equi valent to an MBA) and his Dr. at the University of Saarbriicken, his habilitation degree at the University of Kiel. He has published several books and numerous articles in the fields of innovation and technology management, marketing, business policy and strategy, project management, human informa tion behaviour and accounting. Actual research pro jects focus on Success Factors of Project Manage ment, Innovation Management Teams, Technology Networks, Key Persons and Teams in Relationship Marketing, Technology Transfer, European Research Consortia, and Entrepreneurship in Cultural Busi ness Ventures. Thomas Ritter is researcher at the Institute for Applied Management Science and Corporate Strategy at the University of Karslruhe. His main fields of research are relationships and networks in industrial markets (business-to-business marketing) and innovation ma nagement. In particular he analyses the impact of the management of technology-oriented networking on a company's inter-organizational collaborations and on its innovation success. Hereby he focusses on the concept of network competence as a means to in- 10 crease a company's degree of technological inter weavement. Tai"eb Hafsi is a full professor of organizational policy at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, University of Montreal. He has also taught at McGill's faculty of management, Montreal, and Ecole superieure des sciences econo miques et commerciales in France. Most of his research is related to the broad area of managing complexity, and has included in particular the strate gic decision-making process in state-controlled orga nizations, managing divestment, managing strategic change, and national development strategy. He has published a large number of articles is such journals as the Academy of management journal, Administra tive science quaterly, Journal of management studies, Interfaces, Revue fran~aise de gestion, Gestion, etc. He has also authored of co-authored 23 books or monographs. He holds an Ms from the Sloan school at MIT and a doctorate in business administration from the Harvard Business School. Marc Ingham is Professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain and Head of the research and teaching unit on Busi ness policy at lAG (Institut d'administration et de gestion). He received a Phd in Management sciences at the Universite de Paris IX Dauphine. He is cur rently member of the executive Committee of the Belgian Association for Strategic Management, the European strategic Planning Federation and Vice President of the Association Internationale de Mana gement Strategique. His research and publications focus on organisational learning processes in the con text of cooperation and on innovation management. Caroline Mathe is Assistant Professor at the University of Paris X and director of the Small Business Admi nistration Professionnal Institute (Institut Universi taire Professionnalise d'Administration et Gestion des PME-PMI). She received a PhD in Management 11 Science at the University of Paris X, after having worked for several years in banking and strategy consulting. She published a book in 1997 "How to succeed in a Research and Development partner ship", L' Harmattan, Paris. Her research and publica tions focus especially on organizational learning and resourche theory in the context of technological co operation and innovation management. Wim Kosters holds a chair for Economic Theory (monetary eco nomics and business cycle theory) and the Jean Monnet chair for European economics as well as the position of the managing director of the Institute for the European Economy in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Ruhr-University of Bochum. His main fields of research are monetary economics (including European monetary integra tion), international economics (especially trade policy) as well as economics of employment and labor market performance. Ansgar Belke is an assistant at the chair for Economic Theory in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Ruhr-University of Bochum. From March to May 1997 he was a visitor to the Cen ter for Economic Research (CentER, Tilburg/NL). His main fields of research are business cycle theory, labour market economics, monetary and international economics. Marina Ricciardelli is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome and a supply Professor at Uni versity of l'Aquila (Italy). She is a member of ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) representing Italy in the Economic Policy Committee (Brussels), an expert on fiscal problems on the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities. 12
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