Several developing countries impose high tariffs, directly or indirectly, on imports of manufactured goods such as vehicles and machinery. In many cases governments argue that they need such policies to protect domestic manufacturing industries from foreign competition while simultaneously...

The scope of the article is the automotive industry in China, while its aim is to explore whether joint ventures as the only allowed entry mode in the industry was the best choice of a model when it came to maximizing industry's performance. In the concerned case, as the research question is...