Do Scale Alliances With Competitors Improve Product Performance? A Study of the Aircraft Industry, 1949-2000

Bernard Garrette (1) , Pierre Dussauge (1) , Xavier Castañer (1) , Louis Mulotte (1)

1 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC

This paper investigates the performance impact of undertaking activities through scale alliances with competitors rather than undertaking these activities autonomously.

Keywords: strategy; governance; alliance; cooperation; performance; scale economies; aircraft

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Business administration; Strategy and business policy

Bernard Garrette, Pierre Dussauge, Xavier Castañer, Louis Mulotte. Do Scale Alliances With Competitors Improve Product Performance? A Study of the Aircraft Industry, 1949-2000. 2007. ⟨hal-00584550⟩