Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration

Alliances in the airline industry operate as a basic strategy to stimulate competition and both the number and the types of alliances have increased over time. Each airline maintains alliances simultaneously with a variable number of partners. The set of airline's alliance partners constitutes...

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Autores: Cobeña Ruiz-Lopera, María del Mar, Gallego Agueda, María Ángeles, Casanueva Rocha, Cristóbal
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/167513
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/167513
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.11.004
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Diversity
Structural homophily
Complementarity
Network resources
Alliance portfolio
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spelling Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configurationCobeña Ruiz-Lopera, María del MarGallego Agueda, María ÁngelesCasanueva Rocha, CristóbalDiversityStructural homophilyComplementarityNetwork resourcesAlliance portfolioAlliances in the airline industry operate as a basic strategy to stimulate competition and both the number and the types of alliances have increased over time. Each airline maintains alliances simultaneously with a variable number of partners. The set of airline's alliance partners constitutes its alliance portfolio. A central theme of these portfolios is the way in which partner selection improve performance. Is the alliance portfolio configuration based on either similar or different partners? We examine how the differences can arise from differences between the partners themselves, from resource complementarity, and from the partners structural positions in the network. The relations between these types of differences and whether they affect firm performance are studied. Codeshare alliances established between airline companies at a global level are analyzed to establish their effects on performance. In particular, the study comprises 135 alliance portfolios all of which from major airlines. The results suggest that structural homogeneity and complementarity improve performance and that alliance portfolio diversity favors network resource complementarity.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España ECO2017-84364-RElsevierAdministración de Empresas y MarketingMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/167513https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.11.004reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésJournal of Air Transport Management, 75, 16-26.ECO2017-84364-Rhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.11.004info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1675132026-06-17T12:51:07Z
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title Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
spellingShingle Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
Cobeña Ruiz-Lopera, María del Mar
Diversity
Structural homophily
Complementarity
Network resources
Alliance portfolio
title_short Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
title_full Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
title_fullStr Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
title_full_unstemmed Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
title_sort Diversity in airline alliance portfolio configuration
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cobeña Ruiz-Lopera, María del Mar
Gallego Agueda, María Ángeles
Casanueva Rocha, Cristóbal
author Cobeña Ruiz-Lopera, María del Mar
author_facet Cobeña Ruiz-Lopera, María del Mar
Gallego Agueda, María Ángeles
Casanueva Rocha, Cristóbal
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author2 Gallego Agueda, María Ángeles
Casanueva Rocha, Cristóbal
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Administración de Empresas y Marketing
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Diversity
Structural homophily
Complementarity
Network resources
Alliance portfolio
topic Diversity
Structural homophily
Complementarity
Network resources
Alliance portfolio
description Alliances in the airline industry operate as a basic strategy to stimulate competition and both the number and the types of alliances have increased over time. Each airline maintains alliances simultaneously with a variable number of partners. The set of airline's alliance partners constitutes its alliance portfolio. A central theme of these portfolios is the way in which partner selection improve performance. Is the alliance portfolio configuration based on either similar or different partners? We examine how the differences can arise from differences between the partners themselves, from resource complementarity, and from the partners structural positions in the network. The relations between these types of differences and whether they affect firm performance are studied. Codeshare alliances established between airline companies at a global level are analyzed to establish their effects on performance. In particular, the study comprises 135 alliance portfolios all of which from major airlines. The results suggest that structural homogeneity and complementarity improve performance and that alliance portfolio diversity favors network resource complementarity.
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