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1. What is a strategic alliance? What needs to be true about a strategic alliance?

2. What is a joint venture? A franchise agreement? A licensing agreement?

3. Please indicate the duration of each of the following: Joint venture, franchise agreement, consortia, licensing agreement, subcontracts, and informal understandings.

4. The reasons for international alliances can be summarized into three broad categories. What are they? What are at least three concerns in alliances?

5. What are the three critical implementation questions that need to be asked no matter which approach to obtaining innovation or technology is used? For the third question to your answer in the first part, what are the four potential traps that organizations fall into?

6. After answering the three questions to your answer in the previous question, what four critical implementation elements need to be addressed? Give at least one element, responsibility, effort, or concern for each. (answer both parts of the question)

7. What are four lessons about sharing knowledge that should be in the forefront of external efforts to obtain technology?

8. For a blended firm, culture takes on one of four forms. What are they? When does each occur?