Collaborative ventures - both equity-based partnerships as well as project-based alliances - have dominated the international business scene over the past two decades. By means of this study we investigate the patterns of related and unrelated collaborative venture formation. Using a large...

Drawing on the organizational learning literature, we seek to enhance our understanding of joint ventures by developing a theory to explain the influence of technology on shareholder value creation. We also explain the moderating effects of national culture and task relatedness. Using an...

This study focuses on one of the most important aspects of domestic joint venture and international joint venture (IJV) formation: culture difference. The study adapts the Makino and Beamish (1998) ownership-structure classification of IJVs and empirically examines the effects of JV partner and...