| dc.description.abstract | Starting some decades ago, market globalization, among some other phenomena, has increased business competition. It is seen in cooperation and coopetition models receiving more and more attention, once a company, acting isolated, will hardly be able to develop, in time, all resources, material or not, to acquire and maintain its competitiveness. Thus, facing market requirements, companies have in strategic alliances an alternative to group necessary resources to deal with this market and create a sustainable competitive advantage. In this context, this current study has in view to investigate the degree of use of this strategy by the companies; the set of management control used and a probable future for the strategic alliances made by medium and large enterprises that constitute the Shoe Company Nuclei of Vale do Rio dos Sinos-RS and Franca-SP. The research is applied, quantitative and descriptive, showing the behavior and expectations of both shoe companies nuclei part of the research. This study was develo | en |
