Hi Eike,

If you are looking for detailed information on strategic alliances an industry to consider is Pharma/Biotech. There is a deep literature doing work on strategic alliance research in this industry (see Research Policy, JPIM, AMJ etc). The founders of Recombinant Capital (whom had a great alliance data set in the sector that a lot of folks used) set up another dataset available at: https://www.bioscidb.com

Peter

Hi Eike,

I'd like to recommend a paper published in SMJ which introduces the panorama of alliance databases. As for strategic alliances in the US/Dow Jones companies, I believe SDC alliance/joint venture database is the most proper one.

Schilling, M. A. (2009). Understanding the alliance data. Strategic Management Journal, 30(3), 233-260.

Patrick

Securities Data Corporation (SDC) is the most comprehensive and widely used network/alliance database. We used it in our article and you can take a look as an example.

Ozer, M. and Zhang, G (2018). The Roles of Knowledge Providers, Knowledge Recipients, and Knowledge Usage in Bridging Structural Holes. Journal of Product Innovation Management

Hi Eike. I agree with Muammer and Peng that SDC is the most used database for strategic alliances. However, in my experience I found that this database is not complete and data are somehow not precise. I suggest you to cross-check SDC by using Factiva database, as Lavie did in a Smj paper he published in 2007. I hope it helps! Best luck for your research!!!

Thank you all for your quick response!

I share the views of my colleagues. SDC is the most comprehensive global database on alliances, however, as Giulio Ferrigno points out, there are certainly missing data on many occasions which, without proper post-processing, can lead to biases or difficulties in applying the appropriate statistical models.