Resource allocation under a strategic alliance: How a cooperative network with knowledge flow spurs co-evolution

This article explores how a cooperative network with knowledge flow spurs co-evolution under a strategic alliance. For this purpose, this article analyzes the principle of a strategic alliance's cooperative network with knowledge flow based on four different types of resource allocation patterns. Further, it presents a theoretical model of co-evolution by using co-evolution game and Synergetics order parameters while simulating the core order parameter density distribution and vector field. The result shows that the cooperative network with knowledge flow under a strategic alliance features path mutation, preferences and spontaneous symmetry breaking. Relationship-oriented and knowledge-embedded resource allocation patterns maintain the stability of network co-evolution. Both the technological network and social relationship network coexist in the course of co-evolution of a cooperative network with knowledge flow under a strategic alliance. If external actions have not been achieved, the cooperative network may still be self-sufficient until the network reaches stability. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.