Strategic alliance team diversity, coordination, and effectiveness

Zoogah, David B.; Vora, Davina; Richard, Orlando C.; Peng, Mike W.

doi:10.1080/09585192.2011.543629

Cited by 53 publications

(48 citation statements)

References 84 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Studies conducted by Bekele and Worku [53] and Zoogah, Vora, Richard and Peng [75] have found that the failure of tertiary level academic institutions to equip young graduates with skills that are relevant to the actual needs of society is the key reason why young graduates in the world's least developed nations are virtually unemployable.…”

Section: Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Worku¹

2013

JDAIP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper is based on a 5-year follow-up study (2007 to 2012) of a random sample of 349 small business enterprises that operate in and around the city of Pretoria in South Africa. Data were gathered from each of the businesses on socioeconomic factors that were known to affect the long-term survival of small businesses. The objective of the study was to identify and quantify key predictors of viability and long-term survival. Pearson's chi-square tests of associations, binary logistic regression analysis and the Cox Proportional Hazards Model were used for screening of variables, and for estimating odds ratios and hazard ratios of key predictors of viability and long-term survival. The study found that 188 of the 349 businesses that took part in the study (54%) were not viable, and that the long-term survival and viability of small businesses were adversely affected by lack of entrepreneurial skills, lack of supervisory support to newly established businesses, and inability to operators running newly established businesses to acquire relevant vocational skills.

show abstract

Section: Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Worku¹

2013

JDAIP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…On the other hand, strategic alliances lead to transactions which ultimately help alliance parties to achieve their goals. Also, this partnership improves their performance by reducing costs, acquiring knowledge and market development (Zoogah et al, 2011).…”

Section: Strategic Alliancementioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the Impact of Strategic Alliances on the Performance of SMEs (Case Study: The Industry of Automotive Parts Manufacturers in Iran)

Talebi¹,

Farsi²,

Miriasl³

2017

IBR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study has investigated the effects of strategic alliances on the performance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) of the industry of automotive parts manufacturers. Questionnaires have been distributed among 400 senior managers of SMEs of the industry of auto parts manufacturers based on stratified random sampling. The data has been analyzed using structural equation modeling software and PLS2 software in two segments of measurement model and structural model. In the first segment, technical features of the questionnaire were tested in terms of reliability and validity. Moreover, in the second segment, t-test was used to test research hypotheses. The results show that there is a significant and positive relationship between the dimensions of strategic alliances, including new opportunities, entrepreneurial and innovative capabilities, social capital, and internationalization of business, and competitive advantage with the performance of SMEs.

show abstract

“…Cultural diversity may have both positive and negative influences on group performance (Milliken and Martins, 1996;Williams and O'Reilly, 1998;van Knippenberg et al, 2004;Adler, 2003;Zoogah et al, 2011): it can increase productivity (Stahl et al, 2010a), creativity (McLeod et al, 1996), and the quality of decision making (Shachaf, 2008), but may also hinder communication (Adler, 2003), trigger conflict, and decrease social integration (Stahl et al, 2010b). Advantages of cultural diversity can be substantial: in a field study, Ng and Tung (1998) found that culturally diverse organizations have higher organizational effectiveness, in particular with increased profitability.…”

Section: The Moderating Effect Of Group Cultural Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Facilitating culturally diverse groups with visual templates in collaborative systems

Bresciani

Comi

2017

CCSM

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose -The use of visual templates has proven instrumental in supporting group meetings.This study explores whether visual templates enable culturally diverse groups to achieve greater task precision in face-to-face meetings.Design/methodology/approach -Building on Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST), it is argued that visual templates provide structuration for face-to-face meetings, even more so when they are embedded in computer-supported collaborative systems. In particular, it is hypothesized that the higher the degree of structuration imposed by visual templates, the higher the degree of task precision will be. It is also hypothesized that this relationship is positively moderated by group cultural diversity: higher cultural diversity will further sustain the positive effects of visual templates that provide higher structuration.Findings -Results of an experiment with 229 managers from 49 countries confirm that facilitating groups with visual templates embedded in a computer-supported collaborative system significantly increases task precision at high levels of cultural diversity. Research limitations/implications -This study contributes to Positive OrganizationalScholarship (POS) by investigating the use of visual templates as a contingency factor that increases performance -specifically task precision -of co-located, culturally diverse groups.Practical implications -Results indicate that visual templates embedded in a computersupported collaborative system are an effective method for increasing task precision in face-to-face meetings of culturally diverse groups.2 Originality/value -Theories from information systems and visualization are integrated into cross-cultural management with a view to sustaining the effectiveness of culturally diverse groups.The study sample is characterized by highly culturally diverse groups interacting in face-to-face meetings.

show abstract

Strategic alliance team diversity, coordination, and effectiveness

Cited by 53 publications

References 84 publications

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Identifying the Impact of Strategic Alliances on the Performance of SMEs (Case Study: The Industry of Automotive Parts Manufacturers in Iran)

Facilitating culturally diverse groups with visual templates in collaborative systems

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About