Knowledge Sharing on Healthcare Strategic Alliance Value Creation from Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

Abstract

A strategic alliance is one of the essential pillars for improving the healthcare sector in developing countries. Nevertheless, the available literature reported that most strategic alliances fail to attain the intended objectives due to the contradictory interest of partners’ motives and capabilities. Despite, alliance literature has been widely developed, few studies provide a clear understanding of how alliance motives improve alliance dynamic capability and value creation through knowledge-sharing and how they dynamically improve healthcare alliance performance.

Purpose: this study aims to explore how alliance motives through knowledge-sharing influence several aspects of alliance value creation and performance.

Design and Methodology: A qualitative grounded method driven by semi interview was conducted with 25 healthcare project leaders from Abu Dhabi healthcare institutions, meanwhile, the MAXQDA analysis software was used to analyse the data.

Finding: The findings demonstrated that knowledge-sharing between partners about their motives and achievement facilities healthcare alliance dynamic capabilities and performance. Furthermore, the dynamic capability of the alliance is improved through knowledge-sharing about partners’ complementary resources, which influences value creation.

Contribution: this study, therefore, bridges the alliance literature gap from three perspectives. First, this study provides effective knowledge-sharing scales that play a major role in healthcare alliance dynamic capabilities and performance. Second, this study provides a good understanding of how knowledge-sharing in alliance motives can strengthen alliance dynamic capabilities and performance.

Originality/value: this study is one of few studies that contribute to the alliance in the healthcare sector generally and in developing countries.