Seyed Mohammad Hosein  Mousavi, Mohammad Ali  Abdolvand, 
    The Factors Affecting the Strategic Alignment and Competition
While Collaborating in International Trading Companies,
    International Business Management,
    Volume 10,Issue 8,
    2016,
    Pages 1525-1530,
    ISSN 1993-5250,
    ibm.2016.1525.1530,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.1525.1530)
    Abstract: This study aims to investigate the factors influencing the strategic alignment and competitiveness
while collaborating in international business companies. The methods used in the present study is descriptive
and study plan is correlational and path analysis. In this study, international trading chain businesses are
evaluated. According to wide ranges of these companies, this study is conducted on clothing industry; so with
this limit, industrial dispersion is declined (minimum variance). However, due to the variety of brands in this
particular industry, frequency is maximum. Since, there’s no access to all brands, Emirates Mallis evaluated.
There are 185 brands in the center but available samples were 53 brands. So, brands selection is based on
partnership. Independent variables in this study are: trust and knowledge sharing and its impact on strategic
alignment and competition in cooperation environment is evaluated. Measuring tools used in this study are 4
questionnaires of: knowledge sharing; trust; strategic alignmentand competition during cooperation.
    Keywords: partnership;correlational;descriptive;Competitiveness;alignment