Managing PublicPrivate Strategic Alliances

Managing PublicPrivate Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series cover new views of interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, and emerging areas of inquiry. The series also includes comprehensive empirical studies of selected segments of business, economic, industrial, government, and nonprofit activities with wide prevalence of strategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series seeks to disseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that should enable interested professionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances. Managing PublicPrivate Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speak to the critical issues in managing strategic alliances involving publicprivate enterprises in various industries and countries. The topics cover both the broader issues, such as contracting and bundling public sector infrastructure and services, formation of innovation alliances and alliance portfolios, and competing institutional logics in publicprivate alliances, and the more focused problems of trustbuilding, sustainabilityoriented coinnovation, and organizational justice in multipartner alliances. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, and collectively present a wideranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on managing publicprivate strategic alliances.