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What is the advantage of a strategic alliance over a merger or acquisition?
-Advantages of an alliance over an acquisition include: sharing costs, learning skills, more easily reversed. Alliances are generally easier to manage and are generally more successful than acquisitions.
What are the pros and cons of alliances versus acquisitions?
Pros | Cons | |
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Alliance | Lower risk than an acquisition Gives competences that you may lack Low investment | Less permanent, shorter life-cycle May dilute competence and cover up weaknesses Can be hard to manage, especially with change |
What are the advantages and disadvantages of strategic alliances?
Strategic Alliance Vocabulary, Advantages & Disadvantages
Advantages | Disadvantages |
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Organizational: strategic partner may provide goods & services that complement your own | Sharing: trade secrets |
Economic: reduced costs & risks | Competition: strategic alliances may create a potential competitor |
What are the risks of strategic alliances?
Some of the risks are listed below:
- Partner experiences financial difficulties.
- Hidden costs.
- Inefficient management.
- Activities outside scope of original agreement.
- Information leakage.
- Loss of competencies.
- Loss of operational control.
- Partner lock-in.
What are the risks of a strategic alliance?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of acquisition?
It reduces differentiation within the marketplace. The process of an acquisition strategy benefits businesses because it opens up new lines of potential profit. It is a disadvantage to everyone else because prices tend to rise, the quality of products or services may go down, and a brand can even dilute itself.
What is partnership and its advantages and disadvantages?
Consider a partnership if the number of people involved is small (up to about 20) and limited liability is not necessary. partners’ business affairs are private. there is limited external regulation. it’s easy to change your legal structure later if circumstances change.