Export-Oriented International Joint Venture: Endogenous Set-Up Costs and Information Gathering

Multi-item lot-sizing with joint set-up costs

We consider a multi-item lot-sizing problem with joint set-up costs and constant capacities. Apart from the usual per unit production and storage costs for each item, a set-up cost is incurred for each batch of production, where a batch consists of up toC units of anymix of the items. In addition, an upper bound on the number of batches may be imposed. Under widely applicable conditions on the ...

International Joint Venture Stability in Emerging Markets

We investigate the determinants of international joint venture (IJV) stability and mortality in emerging markets. We propose that IJV stability is reduced with changes in the external regulatory regime, but can be enhanced by certain internal organizational conditions. These conditions include complementarity in resource contributions of partners, a correspondence between these contributions an...

Agency Costs and the Performance Implications of International Joint Venture Internalization

The Effects of Information Technology and Service-Oriented Architectures on Joint Venture Value

Alliances represent a variety of governance contexts, and hence provide a rich empirical setting for studying the value-creation mechanisms of Information Technology (IT). We examine the influence of IT investment and flexible IT infrastructure, through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), in the effect of alliance activity on firm performance. We find that the marginal contribution of each joi...

Parent Control Dynamics and International Joint Venture Performance

This article examines the relationship between foreign parent control and International Joint Venture (IJV) performance over the lifecycle of the IJV. Following Geringer and Hebert (1989); Glaister, Husan, and Buckley (2005), Nguyen and Larimo (2008), the paper conceptualizes foreign parent control across three dimensions including mechanism, focus, and extent. The empirical evidence is based o...