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Alliance management competence a sustainable competitive advantage

While the era of big outsourcing deals is all but over a new demand evolves in organizations. In the third wave of outsourcing we saw that companies form consortia to cooperate on outsourcing deals. This requires alliance management as tool to make an outsourcing deal work. This rises two questions: (1) Who’s steering the result of the deal, and (2) what will happen when the real large companies start outsourcing?
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Outside-inside learning: Wisdom of wise crowds

Outside-inside learning: Learning from Customers

How to learn from the outside? A theoretical perspective