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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of International Journal of Strategic Business Alliances (IJSBA), has just been published. It is available online at IJSBA home page www.inderscience.com/ijsba.
Please consider recommending subscription of IJSBA to your school library. A subscription form is available at (http://www.inderscience.com/libraryform.html).
The table of contents of the journal is given below. I would welcome researchers to submit their papers on inter-firm partnership and collaboration to IJSBA. Paper submission guidelines are available at the journal's home page.
Kind regards,
Refik Culpan
Editor-in-Chief
Int. J. Strategic Business Alliances, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
Contents
1 Editorial: As we launch a new journal on business strategic alliances
Refik Culpan
4 A fresh look at strategic alliances: research issues and future directions
Refik Culpan
24 Interpartner harmony in strategic alliances: managing commitment and
forbearance
T.K. Das and Rajesh Kumar
53 Community of firms: a new collaborative paradigm for open innovation
and an analysis of Blade.org
Charles C. Snow, Doreen R. Strauss and Refik Culpan
73 Evolution of cooperation and dynamics of expectations – implications for
strategic alliances
Susanne Royer and Roland Simons
89 A struggling international partnership: TNK-BP joint venture
A. Cemal Ekin and Thomas R. King
Book Review
107 Managing Network Resources by Ranjay Gulati
Ravi Chinta