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Alliance Building in the Information and Online Database Industry
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 1, Number 4, October 2001
- pp. 481-507
- 10.1353/pla.2001.0056
- Article
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Alliances have become integral to the information database industry. Using environmental scanning methods, an analysis of information industry alliance formation is presented covering the 1) literature, 2) background, 3) industry and market structures, 4) commercial and academic models, 5) trends, and 6) implications for information providers, libraries, and users.