Collaboration between Firms in Information Technology




Group G

Chris Rigatuso

Takeshi Tachi

Dennis Sylvester

Mark Soper



Abstract


Recent decades have witnessed a remarkable increase in collaboration between firms in the research, design, manufacture, and marketing of products and services, especially in information technology industries. Group G endeavors to examine the strategic issues surrounding collaboration and to describe the four major modes through which firms work together: standards organizations, consortia, strategic alliances, and technology webs. This report contains a discussion of the motivations for and potential dangers involved in the formation of alliances, the factors which determine their success or failure, their effect on the deployment of new technologies, and the issues which will influence the future of collaboration. General concepts are described in the context of several specific case studies, including that of the Network Computer.



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