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How many licensing agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many of them are only with businesses smaller or equal in size to yours?
How many export or import trading agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many franchise agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many marketing agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many distribution agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many production agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many product or service-based research and development agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many process-based research and development agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many purchaser or supplier, such as Total Quality Management, agreements with other businesses does your firm currently hold?
How many outside contractor agreements lasting more than ONE year does your firm currently hold with other businesses?
Though you currently have no such agreements, did you ever have one?
In what year was your first such agreement, also called an alliance, formed?
What type of an agreement or alliance was it?
Do you have a current alliance or agreement that is more than one year old?
In what year was your most recent such alliance formed?
What type of alliance was it?
Did you make an equity investment in the alliance?
Did your alliance partner make an equity investment in the agreement?
Prior to forming the alliance, did you EVER have a social or business relationship with your alliance partner?
Did the relationship include a prior alliance?
How many years have you known this alliance partner?
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:?
How has the experience with this alliance been to date? Would you say it has been:?
Have the financial returns from this alliance been:?
Do you expect the financial returns for the duration of the alliance to get:?
How has the alliance performed compared to your expectations for it?
How much has this alliance improved your ability to compete? Would you say it has improved your ability:?
How does this alliance compare to other alliances you have been involved in? Is it:?
Volume 4, Issue 4, 2004 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation