Management International Review

Interpartner, Parent, and Environmental Factors Influencing the Operation of International Joint Ventures: 15 Years of Research1

Management International Review's 1988 special issue on co-operative issues in international business highlighted the elevated use of international joint ventures (IJVs) by multinational companies. Since that issue, the popularity of IJVs has increased in the business as well as academic world. The result is a massive research area that focuses on interpartner, parent, and environmental factors that influence the operation of IJVs. In this article, we provide a thorough review of IJV research...

Escalation in International Strategic Alliances

Casual observation provides numerous examples of alliances that continue for years despite failing to accomplish partner objectives. Why do firms often persist with alliance investments despite a steady stream of evidence that the alliance is producing little or no benefit? We investigate the factors that contribute to a firm's persistence with failing alliances, using an escalation framework for strategic alliances. We demonstrate the framework using a case study of an escalation situation. ...

A Framework of Knowledge Transfer in Cross-Border Joint Ventures: An Empirical Test of the Korean Context1

Cross-border joint ventures are studied based on a framework of knowledge transfer. We tested two nested regression analyses to examine a different interaction between the relation- and knowledge-specific variables with the two types of knowledge transfer. Knowledge is operationalised in terms of new product development and manufacturing processing skills/technique, and the former is considered more tacit than the latter. Between the two types of knowledge transfer, a positive social interact...

Erratum

Negative Multi-Market Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Response to Investment Incentives: The Challenge for Mncs

Multi-market competition occurs when many multinational companies simultaneously invest in many developing countries in a few industries like cars or electronic goods, for which investment incentives exist. Resulting negative multi-market spillover effects have largely been ignored in theories of foreign direct investment leading to a need of combining industrial organization models with the theories of foreign direct investment. Based on theoretically deduced hypotheses and empirical testing...

Firm Characteristics and Mnc's Intra-Network Knowledge Sharing

This study examines important firm characteristics that facilitate the scope and diversity of MNC's intra-network knowledge sharing. Drawing on the transaction cost concept, it identifies and evaluates major transaction cost affecting factors that determine MNC unit's differential involvements in intra-network knowledge sharing, using experiences of MNC subsidiaries in Korea. In general, the cultural similarity, the degree of parent's ownership, the product and process similarity, and the MNC...

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