THE EFFECT OF STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCES ON COMPANY PERFORMANCE

Strategic technology partnering between firms has become a growing sub ject of interest to both companies experimenting with this mode of eco nomic organization and researchers from a wide variety of academic dis ciplines. In this study an effort is made to measure the effect of str ategic technology partnering on companies engaged in such joint effort s. A study of the relevant literature on interfirm cooperation generat es some basic understanding of this phenomenon, after which the empiri cal analysis is expanded with linear structural modeling of a number o f relevant explanatory variables setting strategic partnering in a mor e complex environment.