This study describes Russian managers' perceptions of prospective Russian-US joint ventures. It provides insights into the benefits, expected problems, preferred structures and strategy, equity and managerial control, and intended managerial styles of future Russian-US joint ventures, as...

The determinants of strategic alliance performance have not been explored adequately in the literature. Empirical studies abound with numerous kinds of performance measures but, thus far, there is no coherent theoretical basis for the determinants of alliance performance. In this article we...

The literature on the strategic alliance structuring process does not provide an adequate view of the role of decision-makers in that process, especially about how alliance partners form their structural preferences. Given the critical role of structure in alliance management, the...

Harnessing renewable energy resources has substantially speeded up the process of rural energy planning in India, where about 80% of the total energy is supplied by noncommercial sources, the share of which is declining. In rural energy planning, with backward agriculture and high poverty...

A new mathematical model shows that a direct subsidy for an improved wood stove is not the best way to promote its use in rural India. The possibility of multiple uses of woodfuel and its sustainability are also discussed.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for understanding how alliance partners interpret alliance functioning and how these interpretations shape their subsequent behaviors. Also, to discuss how interpretive schemes in cross‐national strategic alliances impact upon the...

Purpose – To review the alliance partner selection criteria research in order to shed light on how entrepreneurial firms should choose established firms as alliance partners. Design/methodology/approach – Critical differences between entrepreneurial and established firms are presented to...

The temporalities of opportunism – a term that generally means “self‐interest seeking with guile” – have not been adequately examined in the literature. This article suggests that opportunism is a variegated phenomenon that can be better appreciated by exploring the role of its...

Discusses the experience of a large bank in a developing country when the bank introduced a counsellor role to improve the managerial capabilities of its growing body of relatively junior and inexperienced branch managers. Explains how this new counsellor position was designed with the specific...

Discusses a comprehensive programme for changing the role behaviour of a managerial cadre, steeped in traditional hierarchical norms, for greater effectiveness within a new organizational design. A significant component of the change programme was to educate the managers in role‐related...