Auf der im Juni 1999 abgehaltenen IMEMO-Konferenz in Moskau berichtete Max Eli, Mitarbeiter des Ifo-Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung in Dresden, über die gegewärtigen Aussenhandelsbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Russland. Vor dem Hintergrund einer 1998 zurückgegangenen...

En este trabajo se analizan los diferentes patrones de especialización productiva seguidos por inversionistas extranjeros en la industria del vino en Chile; en particular, su efecto sobre la estructura de propiedad que la firma escoge para su nuevo negocio vitivinícola. Existe evidencia que...

The literature on research joint ventures (RJVs) has emphasized internalizing spillovers and cost-sharing as motives for RJV formation. In this paper we develop two additional explanations: product market complementarities and firm heterogeneity. We analyze a model of RJVs with asymmetric firms...

Control and trust are recurring themes in the analysis of the management of International Joint Ventures (IJVs). Both issues (and their antecedents) have been analysed in isolation and in their relation with performance, though hardly any study exists which analyses them simultaneously in their...

The purpose of this paper is to show how joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries contribute to building companies’ competitiveness. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical approach to foreign direct investment (equity based modes). Next, the authors present the results of...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the internationalization of Chinese companies; in particular, the very successful case - the Haier Group. This paper focuses on using a case study methodology to analyze Haier's survival strategy to compete with world giants. The following issues have been...

We present an experiment where two players bargain with a third player. They can bargain either separately or form a joint venture to bargain collectively. Our theoretical benchmark solution predicts decentralized bargaining, as only one player has an interest in forming a joint venture....

After a joint venture agreement with a high-income country’s firm, an export-oriented but technologically backward firm in a low-income country may earn higher profit, but may not be able to improve its export market performance, unless the world market size is large. In a two-firm-two-country...

Las International Joint Venture (IJV) son una forma organizativa muy particular. La participaci¢n de 2 o m s socios en la formaci¢n y operaci¢n de la misma le atribuye caracter¡sticas muy particulares. El estudio de las IJV es muy amplio y discurre por diversas l¡neas de investigaci¢n en...