Strategic Alliances
» Strategic Alliances, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2004
If respondent's firm has a current alliance that is at least one year old.
I want to ask you about that alliance.
11. If this alliance were dissolved today, would your firm’s NON-RECOVERABLE investment in cash and other assets, such as technology or market knowledge, be:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very large | 4 | ||
| 2 | Large | 12 | ||
| 3 | Neither large nor small | 15 | ||
| 4 | Small | 25 | ||
| 5 | Very small | 43 | ||
| 6 | Too soon to know | 1 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 218 | |||
Notes: Sixteen (16) percent of small manufacturers with a current alliance that is at least one year old would lose a large investment (non-recoverable) if the alliance dissolved today (Q#11).
