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Alliance building a Sisyphean task or just a great way to get ahead?

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Summary, in English

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is arguably the most important, emblematic and ubiquitous technology of contemporary society. We see ICT used increasingly in new product areas and help resolve problems and challenges to mankind; it has even gotten to a point where life without ICT is hard to imagine.

For many incumbent firms, the infusion of ICT into their industries poses both threats and opportunities. It might drive significant shifts of financial wealth and make firm performance change drastically. It entails managerial challenges of a kind we might not have seen before, but where knowledge of what possibilities and limitations reside in ICT will be a key success factor.

This short paper highlights the key aspects from a recent doctoral thesis in order to illustrate some of the challenges that arise when incumbents ally with ICT firms – our case is the security industry, which has had a strong analogue technology base in the past, but where ICT offers opportunity for business development now as well as in the foreseeable future.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Document type

Report

Publisher

[Publisher information missing]

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • Security Industry
  • alliances
  • partner strategies
  • inter-organizational alliances
  • and collaboration

Status

Published

Project

  • LUSAX - Security Industry Dynamics