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Introduction

Welcome and thanks for visiting the
survey page of Bernd Tijmense. You are invited to
participate in a research study about strategic alliances and business
performance. This study will be conducted in order to finish writing my master
thesis in business science.



You were selected as a possible
participant because of your company’s quotation in the Forbes 2000, a list of
the 2000 world leading companies,
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Because this study is about alliances, it is recommended that your company
participates in an alliance which started in the last ten years. If your company
participates in more than one alliance please choose one while filling in the
survey questions. Click continue (below) to go to the questions. After answering the questions please click continue to summit the answers.





Background Information:



The purpose of this survey is to determine the effect of knowledge
protection in strategic alliances on the business and alliance performance.



Risks:



Being a participant in this study has no foreseeable risks. The records of
this study will be kept private. In any sort of report we might publish, we
will not include any information that will make it possible to identify a
subject.



Contact and Questions:



The researcher conducting this study is Bernd Tijmense,
student of the Radboud University Nijmegen,
The Netherlands. Please contact him with any questions: href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]class=GramE> .

 
 

When was the alliance agreement signed?
 
 

Is the alliance still operating?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 

There are completely open channels of communication between the partners.
strongly disagree disagree mildly disagree neither agree nor disagree mildly agree agree strongly agree
 
 

Technical information flows quite freely from our firm to our partner.
strongly disagree disagree mildly disagree neither agree nor disagree mildly agree agree strongly agree
 
 

Marketing plans and information flow quite freely from our firm to our partner.
strongly disagree disagree mildly disagree neither agree nor disagree mildly agree agree strongly agree
 
 

Strategic information flows quite freely from our firm to our partner.
strongly disagree disagree mildly disagree neither agree nor disagree mildly agree agree strongly agree
 
 

Working level employees from our firm and the partner communicate regularly and frequently.
strongly disagree disagree mildly disagree neither agree nor disagree mildly agree agree strongly agree
 
 

Many alliances result in SIDE EFFECTS for their parant firms. For example, there are POSITIVE side effects when the skills that are being developed through the alliance can be applied profitably to other operations within the company. There are NEGATIVE side effects if the collaboration has damaging repercussions on the activities in the company. In this alliance the NET side effects for YOUR firm have been:
 
strongly negative
 
negative
 
zero
 
positive
 
very positive
 
 

Overall, to what extent do you think YOUR firm is satisfied with the global results of this alliance?
 
very unsatisfied
 
unsatisfied
 
somewhat satisfied
 
satisfied
 
very satisfied
 
 


The next three questions are about the parent company.
 
 
 
With what percentage did the sales revenues grow in the last decade?
   
 
 
 
With what percentage did the market share grow last decade?
   
 
 
 
What is the name of the (parent) company you work for?
   
 
Please contact [email protected] or click here if you have any questions regarding this survey.
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