Learning through the international joint venture: lessons from the experience of China's automotive sector
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This study explores why international joint ventures (IJVs) based in the global South may meet with only partial success in nurturing local technological capability. The experience of China’s passenger-vehicle sector demonstrates that in the existence of a substantial technologicalcapability gap between alliance partners, the IJV arrangement is likely to create a “passive” learning mode, and learners using this IJV arrangement may be able to strengthen their production capability but leaving their project-execution and innovation capabilities largely undeveloped.
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