Top Critical Success Factors for Enterprises to Benefit a Prosperous Learning through Strategic Alliances in Developing Countries

How can an enterprise be innovative? Is it not that innovation happens based on learning and an innovative organization is a successful organization which wants to learn? To enhance such innovative enterprises, cooperation should occur between organizations to share their knowledge. Strategic Alliance is a form of cooperation which can brings opportunities for the partners to achieve their common strategic goals and simultaneously learn mutually from each other. In developing countries, like developed countries, enterprises can form strategic alliances with other successful enterprises to share their knowledge and learn from each other to become innovative organizations and gain competitive advantages. However, to have a successful learning process through strategic alliances, the factors that influence this process should be recognized. And the aim of this paper is to develop a list of these critical success factors (CSFs), by reviewing the previous studies done by experts in this field. The outcome of this study shows that the most important factors which make the process of learning and knowledge transfer through strategic alliances successful in developing countries, are the existence of a systematic and well-designed organizational structure for this process, a powerful learning intention, the organizational absorptive capacity and transferring people between partners.