Lemmens – Innovation in Technology Alliance Networks

This book provides us with valuable insights into the alliance network that has come into existence in one of the largest IT-based sectors, i.e. microelectronics, and the evolution of this network structure over time. Furthermore, the study makes a significant contribution to the existing theory on alliances and networks by showing that there is a clear shift in the embeddedness logic underlying the development of the microelectronics network and the formation of alliance blocks within this net