Strategic alliance partner selection is a critical aspect of successful alliance development; even superior alliance management may not be sufficient to overcome poor initial partner screening and selection efforts.
The questionnaires, which addressed the attributes of the company, alliance partner selection and motivational factors and the performance of the alliances, were designed to collect data from the managers of four different business sections within the tourism industry: hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, and entertainment establishments.
Where aspects of these CSFs have been omitted from analysis during initial partner selection, alliance managers tell us of a litany of issues, challenges and failures that they have been forced to address, many of which might have been avoided altogether with greater diligence up front.
That question was resolved on December 3 , 1995 when Bowl Alliance officials announced their selection of Virginia Tech and Texas for the Sugar Bowl.
Independent experts will rate the therapeutic alliance on a random selection of videotapes using the 12-item Observer version of the Working Alliance Inventory-Short (WAI-O-S).
We believe that managers equipped with a better understanding of this process would be in a position to make more informed decisions regarding choice of technologies, adoption of particular standards, or selection of alliance-partners.
As part of its Tuesday film series, the Alliance Française is showing a selection of Depardieu's work at Florence Gould Hall in October and November, including his performances as a priest in "Sous le Soleil de Satan," from 1987, a farmer in "Jean de Florette," from 1986, and as Marguerite Duras's intellectual boy toy in "Le Camion," from 1977.
Over approximately 5 years, the FutureGen Industrial Alliance, Inc. (Alliance) conducted a detailed site-selection process and identified a site for carbon sequestration storage in Morgan County, Illinois.
PinPointing needs the fine-tuning to get its selections better matched to the pins, perhaps an alliance with a bigger retailer with more selection, like Amazon.
The alliance doubles Amazon's e-book selection to more than 4,000 titles and heats up the competition among software companies seeking to gain a foothold as platform providers in the nascent market of electronic publishing.
