Star Trek Voyager's Alliance in "The Void"
Running Head: Collaborative Case Study
Collaborative Case Study: Star Trek Voyager 's Alliance in “The Void.”
Erol Gokcedag
Western International University
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Running Head: Collaborative Case Study
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Collaborative Case Study: Star Trek Voyager 's Alliance in “The Void.”
Collaboration among multinationals has become a gateway toward long-term sustainability and innovation. Within a dynamic global marketplace, an organization that insists on safeguarding its ideas and values from the competition will become obsolete. To remain abreast of the latest challenges and developments, multinational organizations have realized that
“[e]ngaging in long-term mortal combat leaves companies financially and intellectually depleted and vulnerable to the next wave of competition and innovation (Bleeke & Ernst, 1994, p. 1-7).
In other words, the complexity of global commerce has created a common purpose among the various major economic players. Those who want to prevail against the void of natural disasters, population explosion, and the concomitant degradation of human rights and the environment must band into functional alliances to share insights, resources, and technologies.
Such a contemporary description of global business affairs can become illustrative of futuristic cases that further give testimony and witness to the importance of inter-organizational alliances for the purpose of overcoming shared problems and predicaments.
In the episode “The Void,” from the well-known Star Trek: Voyager series, the star ship is abruptly pulled into a gravitational anomaly that traps them inside a dark region separate from the stars and regular space travel. Promptly, an oncoming vessel, similarly marooned inside this region, attacks Voyager, beaming important supplies and equipment away from Voyager to the enemy ship. The commander of the alien vessel hails Voyager 's Captain Janeway, introducing himself as General Valen who heads a pack of pirates,
Collaborative Case Study: Star Trek Voyager 's Alliance in “The Void.”
Erol Gokcedag
Western International University
1
Running Head: Collaborative Case Study
2
Collaborative Case Study: Star Trek Voyager 's Alliance in “The Void.”
Collaboration among multinationals has become a gateway toward long-term sustainability and innovation. Within a dynamic global marketplace, an organization that insists on safeguarding its ideas and values from the competition will become obsolete. To remain abreast of the latest challenges and developments, multinational organizations have realized that
“[e]ngaging in long-term mortal combat leaves companies financially and intellectually depleted and vulnerable to the next wave of competition and innovation (Bleeke & Ernst, 1994, p. 1-7).
In other words, the complexity of global commerce has created a common purpose among the various major economic players. Those who want to prevail against the void of natural disasters, population explosion, and the concomitant degradation of human rights and the environment must band into functional alliances to share insights, resources, and technologies.
Such a contemporary description of global business affairs can become illustrative of futuristic cases that further give testimony and witness to the importance of inter-organizational alliances for the purpose of overcoming shared problems and predicaments.
In the episode “The Void,” from the well-known Star Trek: Voyager series, the star ship is abruptly pulled into a gravitational anomaly that traps them inside a dark region separate from the stars and regular space travel. Promptly, an oncoming vessel, similarly marooned inside this region, attacks Voyager, beaming important supplies and equipment away from Voyager to the enemy ship. The commander of the alien vessel hails Voyager 's Captain Janeway, introducing himself as General Valen who heads a pack of pirates,
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