Interorganizational coordination
Strategy1 sample item
About this scale
An alliance management capability measure was conceptualized and operationalized. It is reflected by five underlying routines: interorganizational coordination, alliance portfolio coordination, interorganizational learning, alliance proactiveness, and alliance transformation.
Sample item(s)
“Our activities with R&D alliance partners are well coordinated.”
Notes
Given that a 7-point scale (1 to 7) was used and, thus, 4 would be the ideal mean, the observed means were between 4.58 and 5.17 and, thus, quite high. Therefore, the item wording could be modified (e.g., "are always wel
Source & citation
Schilke/Goerzen (2010): Alliance Management Capability: An Investigation of the Construct and Its Measurement, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 1192–1219.
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