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This 9 page paper examines the benefits and potential disadvantages of strategic alliances and uses the White Sands joint venture, which is formed as the result of an alliance between Kuwait Petroleum Corp’s Petrochemical Industries Company and Dow Chemicals of the US. The paper looks at how the joint venture may help both companies and the way potential problems have been overcome with the use of tools such as mutual hostages. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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File: TS14_TEJVwhitesand.rtf
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alliance that have complimentary strengths that can benefit both parties. This is certainly the case in many petrochemical strategic alliances which may include joint ventures.
In all cases the aim will be to increase the profitability of the company by increasing market share or sales or allowing for expansion of sales
into new areas. Theories such as the Porters generic competitive advantages as well as ideas such as economies of scope and scale show how a strategic alliance, formal or informal,
can create value for all parties to the agreement. Strategic alliances may also be used as a defence strategy to prevent the loss of customers or sales. If we consider
the case of Kuwait Petroleum Corps Petrochemical Industries Company K.S.C. and Dow Chemicals there is little overlap between the operations so the joint venture set up this was a formal
argument with the use of a joint venture as well as the desire to find complimentary core competencies in order to take advantage of the knowledge and access to resources
that each company has, with Dow having access to the markets and PIC having access to the resources and knowledge of the use of those resources. The competences were complimentary.
2. Background Dow Chemicals is a US based company and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
and is part of the strategy by the Kuwaiti government to increase diversification away from the pure petrochemical industries. There are two
joint ventures being set up, both give each company a 50% share, so these are even ventures with neither company having a controlling share. The two joint ventures are called
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