Are External and Internal R&D Complementary or Substitute for the Product Innovation of International Joint Ventures in China?

Control of international joint ventures

Prior research has found that many international joint ventures (IJVs) fail. Some authors have suggested that control problems are one of the primary causes of IJV failures. However, little IJV-related research has focused on control issues. This paper reports the results of a largely exploratory study of the control practices employed by partners involved in three arguably successful IJVs. The...

Collaborative Innovation: Internal and External Involvement in New Product Development

Industry and academia alike are increasingly becoming aware of the fact that innovation does not take place in isolated cells or functions within the firm. During the last the years the term open innovation has emphasized the importance of internal and external collaboration in order to increase the competitiveness of companies. Although the idea of involving internal and external actors in the...

the innovation of a statistical model to estimate dependable rainfall (dr) and develop it for determination and classification of drought and wet years of iran

آب حاصل از بارش منبع تأمین نیازهای بی شمار جانداران به ویژه انسان است و هرگونه کاهش در کم و کیف آن مستقیماً حیات موجودات زنده را تحت تأثیر منفی قرار می دهد. نوسان سال به سال بارش از ویژگی های اساسی و بسیار مهم بارش های سالانه ایران محسوب می شود که آثار زیان بار آن در تمام عرصه های اقتصادی، اجتماعی و حتی سیاسی- امنیتی به نحوی منعکس می شود. چون میزان آب ناشی از بارش یکی از مولفه های اصلی برنامه ...

Research Joint Ventures, Innovation, and Multiproduct Competition

International Joint Ventures and the Boundaries of the Firm

This paper links the declining propensity of multinational firms to share ownership of their foreign operations to increasing returns to coordination associated with managing globalized operations. The paper isolates the characteristics associated with the decision to share ownership in international operations and then employs two exogenous shifts in the relative cost of sharing ownership to i...