Strategic alliances have attracted substantial attention from industry and academia over the past three decades. However, due to rapid technological evolution, saturated marketplaces, globalisation of businesses on the one hand and de-globalisation of the market on the other (as marked by Brexit and the trade war between US and China, COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war), the strategic environment of businesses is changing quickly. Fundamental and rapid changes in the wider environment necessitate the review of theoretical and practical insights of earlier and emerging studies - to examine the new challenges, issues and paradoxes of strategic alliances. This special issue attempts to provide a forum to allow researchers to question the assumptions underlying existing theory a little further beyond just “gap-spotting” or “gap-filling”. This special issue includes four very interesting literature review pieces, which venture deeper into the phenomenon, and explore the opportunities, issues and paradoxes of strategic alliances while adopting alternative theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and interpretations to address issues of managing strategic alliances and maximising returns from them in the new strategic context.

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战略联盟问题研究：新时代的挑战、问题与悖论

在过去的三十年里，战略联盟引起了工业界和学术界的广泛关注。然而，由于技术快速发展，市场饱和，一方面是业务全球化，另一方面是市场去全球化（以英国脱欧和中美贸易战、COVID-19大流行和乌克兰战争为标志） ），企业的战略环境正在迅速变化。更广泛环境中的根本性和快速变化需要对早期和新兴研究的理论和实践见解进行回顾——以审视战略联盟的新挑战、问题和悖论。本期特刊试图提供一个论坛，让研究人员能够进一步质疑现有理论的假设，而不仅仅是“发现空白”或“填补空白”。本期特刊包括四篇非常有趣的文献综述，深入探讨了这一现象，探讨了战略联盟的机遇、问题和悖论，同时采用替代的理论视角、方法论和解释来解决管理战略联盟和最大化回报的问题。他们在新的战略背景下。