The rapid emergence of strategic collaborations is evident everywhere. A look at the top companies around the world illustrates the increasing importance of the collaborative mind-set. Companies are expanding and deepening existing relationships and entering into new, more entrepreneurial...

Drawing on the knowledge-based view (KBV) of the firm, this study compares value creation between US manufacturing and service firms entering China through strategic alliances. Using an event study applied on a sample of 192 manufacturing and 105 service firms, the results indicate that value...

This paper examines whether a party to a strategic alliance or joint venture suffers from spillover effects when the other partner files for bankruptcy. We find that the non-bankrupt strategic alliance partners, on average, experience a negative stock price reaction around their partner firm's...

Over the last three decades, strategic alliance performance has been an important research topic within the international business and management fields. Researchers have investigated a number of factors explaining performance but often find diverging results. Scholars have suggested that one...

We consider a framework where initially a foreign firm and a few domestic firms are competing in a homogenous product local market. The foreign firm has a lower marginal cost of production relative to the domestic firms. We study then possibility of a bilateral agreement between the foreign firm...

The Philippines is a geographically dispersed country posing a major bottleneck in the economic distribution of grid power to its more than 7,000 islands. To this inherent problem, on site power generation is a practical alternative.

Examines the structural features and operational characteristics of the two EPZs, as well as their socio-economic consequences for the host country. The data analysed in this respect relate to the period covering the inception of the two EPZs, up to 1996 - Chittagong EPZ (1983 to 1996) and Dhaka...

This paper studies the properties of joint-venture relationship between a technologically advanced multinational firm and a local firm operating in a developing economy where the ability to enforce contracts is weak. We formulate a dynamic model of principal-agent relationship in which at any...

This study examines whether foreign ownership share in investment projects affects the extent of spillovers from foreign direct investment. The analysis, based on a Romanian firm-level data set produces evidence consistent with positive intra-sectoral spillovers resulting from wholly-owned...