Resumen:
Literature has shown that cooperation through alliances is an
interesting strategic decision, since it allows competitiveness, improves
knowledge, innovative results and good performance. Several studies have
focused on identifying the main factors affecting inter-firm cooperation. This
paper aims to improve knowledge in this line of research with aspects less
covered in the literature by examining empirically the relationship of
technological cooperation alliances with quality and social capital management,
differentiating between vertical, horizontal and institutional cooperation,
according to the nature of the chosen partner. The analysis is developed with a
sample of 1,848 companies in the manufacturing sector, using a binary logistic
regression to evaluate the existence of dependency relationships between the
analysed variables. Results show that there is a positive relationship between
business cooperation and the implementation of quality controls in the case of
cooperation with suppliers, customers and competitors; however, not so in the
case of cooperation with institutions.