The authors explore to what extent there is persistence in, and interrelation between, alliance strategies with different partner types (customers, suppliers, competitors). In a panel data set of innovation-active firms in the Netherlands from 1996 to 2004, the authors find persistence in alliance strategies with all three types of partners, but customer alliance strategies are more persist…
Object-orientation (OO) is a powerful design methodology, which has firmly moved into the mainstream of software development. In 2002, both the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the ACM Turing Award (the Nobel Prize for Computing) were awarded to the scholars who started the object-oriented journey back in 1967. Despite this recognition, objectorientation is far from being the dominant techn…