MANAGING ALLIANCES TO DEVELOP NEW PRODUCTS BASED ONEMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

摘要

Many companies join consortia and other alliances to develop new products based on emerging informationtechnologies. This paper extends work by Cash [9] on managing technologies within corporations, in light of recentresearch on the management of strategic R&D alliances. We argue that new governance structures and managerialtactics are needed for interorganizational alliances that aim to develop products based on emerging IT. We brieflyreport on early findings from a study of IT consortia, and propose a framework for conducting further case-basedresearch.