This article reviews and critiques Glaister and Buckley's (1998) examination of measures of performance for a sample of UK international alliances. This article identifies and addresses issues regarding three aspects of Glaister and Buckley's research: (1) concerns regarding their efforts to 'replicate' an earlier study by Geringer and Hebert (1991), (2) concerns with their efforts to extend the study to non-equity alliances, and (3) concerns with efforts to extend their study to issues of alliance performance and culture. Suggestions are provided for improving the Glaister and Buckley study and for conducting future research on alliance performance.
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