PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL IN INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES

Many firms have found that the benefits of interorganizational coopera tion may be outweighed by costs arising from unintended leaks in produ ct or process technology, market insight, and other knowledge-based as sets to the alliance partner. Successful alliance management involves a process of designing, staffing, and monitoring the collaborative int erface to balance the requirements for learning and information sharin g with protection of intellectual capital. This work describes a frame work for assessing and implementing this process.