We investigated the value of local partners’ business group affiliations in international joint ventures (IJVs) by integrating economic and political perspectives on business groups with insights from the IJV literature. In 563 Sino-Japanese IJVs in China, we found that a local partner’s...

This study examines the role of internationalentrepreneurship among Japanese small- to medium-sized enterprises(SMEs). Specifically, the research focuses on the form of foreign directinvestments (FDIs) used by Japanese SMEs and the organizational impact of theFDIs as compared to other nations....