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Strategic alliance

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, strategic alliance means: A cooperative arrangement between independent organisations to pursue shared strategic aims while retaining separate identities.

In Turkish: stratejik ittifak

How it is used

Use for sustained cooperation such as joint development or market access; describe what each partner contributes.

Example sentences

  1. The manufacturer formed a strategic alliance with a university to develop new materials.

    Independent partners combine different capabilities around a shared objective.

  2. The strategic alliance ended, but neither company lost its separate ownership structure.

    Cooperation does not necessarily combine the partners into one organisation.

Common collocations

  • form a strategic alliance
  • strategic alliance partner
  • strategyA long-term plan that sets out where an organisation wants to go and the main choices it will make to get there, such as which markets to enter and what to stop doing.
  • stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by an organisation or project, or can affect it, such as employees, customers, investors, suppliers and the local community.

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