Cooperative Strategies and Alliances in International Business: Joint Ventures and Technology Partnership

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Farok J. Contractor, Peter Lorange
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2002 - Business & Economics - 514 pages
Why should firms cooperate? The strategy and economics basis for cooperative ventures / Farok F. Contractor, Peter Lorange -- A theory of cooperation in international business / Peter F. Buckley, Mark Casson -- Understanding alliances : the role of task and organizational complexity / F. Peter Killing -- Some taxonomies of international cooperative arrangements / Franklin R. Root -- A technology-transfer methodology for developing joint production strategies in varying technological systems / Kofi Afriyie -- Trends in international collaborative agreements / Michael Hergert, Deigan Morris -- Joint venture cycles : the evolution of ownership strategies of U.. MNEs, 1945-75 / Benjamin Gomes-Casseres -- Trends in ownership of U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries in developing countries : an interindustry analysis / Stephen F. Kobrin -- Entreprenuership over the product life cycle : joint venture strategies in the Netherlands / Sanford V. Berg, Jacob M. Hoekman -- A study of the life cycle of joint ventures / Bruce Kogut -- R & D and international joint ventures / Karen F. Hladik -- Strategic alliances and partner asymmetries / Kathryn Rudie Harrigan -- Network analysis for cooperative interfirm relationaships / Gordon Walker -- Entering the United States by joint venture : competitive rivalry and industry structure / Bruce Kogut, Harbir Singh -- International cooperative ventures in the commercial aircraft industry : gains, sure, but what's my share? / Richard W. Moxon, Thomas W. Roehl, F. Frederick Truitt -- Joint venture general managers in LDCs / Jean-Louis Schaan, Paul W. Beamish -- Learning among joint venture-sophisticated firms / Marjoie A. Lyles -- Technology partnerships between larger and smaller firms : some critical issues / Yves L. Doz -- Domestic and foreign learning curves in managing international cooperative strategies / D. Eleanor Westney -- Underlying dilemmas in the management of international joint ventures / Willem T.M. Koot -- Formal and informal cooperation strategies in international industral networks / Hakan Hakansson, Jan Johanson -- Cooperative strategies in developing countries : the new forms of investment / Charles P. Oman -- Successes and failures of joint ventures in developing counties : lessons from experience / Wiliam A. Dymsza -- Countertrade : a form of cooperative international business arrangement / Donald F. Lecraw -- Strategic partnerships between technological entrepreneurs in the United States and large coprorations in Japan and the United States / Frank Hull ... [et al.] -- Japan's joint ventures in the United States / Tyzoon T. Tyebjee -- Deference given the buyer : variations across twelve cultures / John L. Graham -- Strategic alliances with the Japanese : implications for human resource management / Vladimir Pucik.

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