Growth in the internationalization of R&D activity has increased in concert with the increasing use of strategic alliances. Typically, to date MNEs have preferred to internalize their R&D activities by setting up wholly owned subsidiaries or by acquiring a suitable target. By considering the sequential nature of market entry and the contingency for subsequent reorientation following an initial ...

Through studying joint ventures during the early (1993) and late phases (2001) of Hungary’s economic transition to market economy, we demonstrate how institutional and economic transformation alters foreign parents’ roles in the success of joint ventures. Foreign parent decision influence and resource provision affected market performance and knowledge acquisition differently in the two phases....

This year, project efforts are focused on reapplying and revising existing evaluation techniques for the purpose of evaluating English and Japanese information extraction systems in the joint ventures and microelectronics domains. This year's effort will culminate in the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5) in August, 1993. development in March, 1993, in preparation for the evaluation...

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of The Eclectic Theory in explaining the entry mode choices of Taiwanese Electronic Components firms in China markets in the time period of 2003 to 2005 and includes as many as 267, 324, and 283 firms respectively .Through their real business viewpoint , this study hopes to explore how the ownership, location, and interna...

Rarity has important implications with respect to information technology (IT) resources, enabling firms to develop competitive advantage. We study the effect of firms’ possession of rare technology (IT) resources in the formation of alliances and its effect on firm performance. Using text-mining techniques, we measure the rarity of the 488 technology keywords present in a text corpus from 81,26...

Recent applications of real options theory in strategy research have examined investment decisions framed as the purchase or exercise of particular options, but research has yet to offer direct evidence on whether firms actually capture option value from such investments. In this paper, we estimate the proportion of firm value accounted for by growth options and link the growth option value to ...

Online publication date: 28 July 2005 Abstract In spite of the increasing popularity of international joint ventures, managers express a high level of dissatisfaction with them. This paper argues that overemphasis on the outcome has resulted in a neglect of the social processes underlying the outcome. The paper elaborates upon the rationale for a cooperative approach towards interorganizational...