2011 Volume 32 Pages 111-116
Various Changes in socio-economic systems such as globalization seem to be influencing strategic behavior of business organizations. This paper tries to examine the influences of changes in socioeconomic systems on alliance and collaboration strategies by business organizations. Many companies seem to be committed to collective strategy by which they try to affiliate themselves with some kind of collectives such as organic, agglomerate, conjugate and confederate ones. They expect that affiliation with such collectives would mitigate the harsh influences from the changes in socio-economic systems. Such approach can be viewed as a type of alliance and collaboration strategies based on "social ecology" viewpoint. This paper also looks at another type of alliance and collaboration strategies by business organizations which include a more extensive and long-range one for contributing to public interest in the future. Contemporary business organizations are committed to a variety of alliance and collaboration strategies for a variety of purposes. This paper also looks at a typology of values that can be associated with various types of alliance and collaboration strategies in such area. One of such strategies can be regarded as an effort geared toward achieving sustainability of social and economic systems.
