Competitive Strategic Alliances Through Knowledge Value

Strategic alliances are widely considered as collaborative strategies formulated and implemented to meet shared objectives and develop superior resources cooperatively. Among these objectives and resources, Knowledge-based capabilities and learning have received more attention in literature and numerous authors have investigated different aspects of strategic alliance pertaining to these two fields. However, from strategic perspective of knowledge management, knowledge value chain (KVC) and organizational knowledge chain (KC) systematically usher an organization to manage its knowledge-resources and based on which creates value and sharpens its competitive edge. However, in strategic alliance studies these two approaches (KVC and KC) have not been addressed enough and literature sufferers from a conceptual gap. Therefore, this paper is aimed to bridge this gap theoretically and provide some valuable insights for researchers ad practitioners. Field of Research; strategic management, knowledge-based theory 1