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战略联盟有消极和积极的两面。一方面，有人认为战略联盟，更容易使企业成功，实现其目标或管理它的一些环境的限制。另一方面，企业在他们的自治形成联盟时，会失去独立权，这是目前研究的问题。它指的是战略联盟中合作伙伴之间互相依赖的因素和结果。交易成本理论和社会交换理论有助于揭示依赖的原因，依赖的严重后果的的例子就是导致投机行为，信任，权力的缺失等等。另外，许多研究探讨企业探讨了公司的管理政策，希望能应对他们的伙伴依赖症。现在研究的最终目标是讨论不同的策略来防止或终止公司之间的依赖关系带来的负面影响。

Although the number of alliance formation has increased in the last years, there are still many problems in exchange relationships between partners. Many scholars claim that more than 50% of the strategic alliances do not succeed. To overcome this issue, managers in strategic alliances should better understand the factors on which the interorganizational relationship depends. [1]

There are negative and positive sides of the strategic alliances. On the one hand, is considered that strategic alliances make it easier for a firm to succeed and to achieve its goals or to manage some of its environmental constraints. On the other hand, firms lose their autonomy or independence when forming alliances, which is the issue of the current study. [2] It refers to the incentives and consequences of dependence between partners in a strategic alliance. Transaction cost and social exchange theories contribute to reveal the incentives of dependence and an example for consequences of dependence is the opportunistic behavior, the lack of trust, power, etc. Furthermore, many studies explore the management strategies of firms seeking to cope with their partner dependencies. [3] The final object of the current study is to discuss different strategies to prevent or to terminate the negative influence from dependence of one firm on another.

2 Conceptual framework

Considering the role of dependence in governing strategic alliances in the current study, there are three steps to describe the dependence concept. First, it must be given a definition of dependence, where it emanates from, how it influences the mutual relations between partners or which consequences it causes and how partners can safeguard from dependence. Second, the term 'dependence advantage' is going to be defined. Finally, we consider who depends on whom or which factors influence the dependence of one actor on another.

2.1 Dependence in strategic alliances

Das and Teng (2000) argue that: 'forging an alliance usually increases a firm’s dependence on its partner firm'. Hence, the mutual dependence between partners is a very common characteristic of the strategic alliance. [4] Das and Teng (2003) have defined the mutual dependence as a degree to本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。