Exploring the Relationships Between Tangible and Intangible Resources in a Learning Alliance Dynamics: Comment on the Paper by Kapmeier

Kapmeier (2008) focuses his research on commonlearning and firms’ opportunistic behaviour inlearning alliances. A strategic alliance, as clearlystated by Gulati (1998, p. 293) is a voluntaryarrangement between firms to exchange andshare knowledge as well as resources with theintent of developing processes, products orservices. This is a relevant topic not only forthose firms that operate in industries characterizedtypically by high R&D investments, but alsofor those scholars who are interested in exploringthe real causes of success and failure of analliance.