caa a22 4500 605485445 CHVBK 20210128100441.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2053-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2053-7 Strategic Alliance Formation and Structural Configuration [Elektronische Daten] [Haiying Lin, Nicole Darnall] While previous research considering the emergence of strategic alliances has typically viewed their formation through a single theoretical lens, we suggest that multiple theoretical perspectives are needed to understand their complexity. This research conceptually integrates the resource-based view and institutional theory to assess variations in firm-level motivations to form strategic alliances. Applying these ideas to the context of complex environmental problems, we propose that strategic alliances typically are either competency- or legitimacy-oriented, and that four structural dimensions characterize both types of alliances—organization learning, partner diversity, governance structure, and partner relations. We present research propositions that describe how alliances differ along these dimensions, and offer an important broader perspective on alliance formation that is applicable towards understanding their strategic and social outcomes. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Institutional theory nationallicence Resource-based view nationallicence Strategic alliances nationallicence Alliance orientation nationallicence Alliance structure nationallicence Complex environmental problems nationallicence Lin Haiying School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, EV1 231, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada aut Darnall Nicole School of Public Affairs, School of Sustainability, 411N. Central Ave. Suite 400, 85004-0687, Phoenix, AZ, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 127/3(2015-03-01), 549-564 0167-4544 127:3<549 2015 127 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2053-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2053-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lin Haiying School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, EV1 231, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Darnall Nicole School of Public Affairs, School of Sustainability, 411N. Central Ave. Suite 400, 85004-0687, Phoenix, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 127/3(2015-03-01), 549-564 0167-4544 127:3<549 2015 127 10551