Alliance formation and structure choice : the roles of entrepreneurial orientation and institutional environments / Pat H. Dickson and K. Mark Weaver -- Value creation in alliance portfolios : integrating configurational and managerial aspects / Andreas Al-Laham and Florian Zock -- Antecedents to value creation and value appropriation outcomes of strategic alliances : the moderating role of governance mode / Adamantia Pateli and Spyros Lioukas -- The dynamics of the alliance development process / T. K. Das and Bing-Sheng Teng -- Insular stages of alliances and counterintuitive communication needs / Varghese P. George -- Beyond the "ideal" : exploring controls in interfirm settings from a combinatorial perspective / Ariela Caglio and Angelo Ditillo -- Effective management of strategic alliances in international construction / Beliz Ozorhon and David Arditi -- Learning dynamics in strategic alliances / T. K. Das and Rajesh Kumar -- A typology of interorganizational learning : the case of international strategic alliances in the automobile industry / Tsutomu Kobashi, Natsuko Fujikawa, and Kazuyuki Kozawa -- Survival of the fittest or survival of the group? : coevolutionary dynamics in strategic alliances / Niki Hynes and Juliette Wilson -- Social technology and stability/transformation of alliance networks : dilemmas and paradoxes of cooperation / Sof Thrane and Jan Mouritsen -- Managing internal tensions in strategic alliances / T. K. Das and Bing-Sheng Teng -- About the contributors.