Cooperative Strategies Asian Pacific Perspectives

by Beamish, Paul W.; Ainuddin, R Azimah; Anand, Jaideep; Bjorkman, Ingmar; Chen, Min; Child, John; Delios, Andrew; Finn, Adam; Gray, Barbara; Hoskins, Colin; Leung, Kwok; Li, Jiatao; Lin, Julia L.; Lu, Yuan; Luo, Yadong; Makino, Shige; McFayden, Stuart; Olso

• ISBN13: 9780787908171
• ISBN10: 0787908177
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-03
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

The three geographically targeted volumes comprised in the Cooperative Strategies series--the most ambitious effort to date to explore the extent, nature, operations, and environment of cross-border cooperative linkages in North American, European, and Asian Pacific regions. The scholars who contributed to the Cooperative Strategies series include top experts in international strategy and management. Consolidating cutting-edge scholarship and forecasting of future trends, they focus on a wide variety of new cooperative business arrangements and offer the most up-to-date assessment of them. They present the most current research on topics such as: advances in theories of cooperative strategies; the formation of cooperative alliances; the dynamics of partner relationships; and the strategy and performance of cooperative alliances. Blending conceptual insights with empirical analyses, the contributors highlight commonalities and differences across national, cultural, and trade zones. The chapters in this volume are anchored in a wide set of theoretical approaches, conceptual frameworks, and models, illustrating how rich the area of cooperative strategies is for scholarly inquiry. The Cooperative Strategies Series represents an invaluable resource for serious academic study and for business practitioners who wish to improve not only their understanding but also the performances of their joint ventures and alliances.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Authors	xxv
PART ONE Advances in Theories of Cooperative Strategies
International Joint Venture Decision Making	3	(19)
Yuan Lu
Ingmar Bjorkman
Cooperative Strategies and Chinese Business Networks: A Study of Hong Kong Transnational Corporations in the ASEAN Region	22	(35)
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Formation and Evolution of International Joint Ventures: Examples from U.S.-Chinese Partnerships	57	(34)
Barbara Gray
Aimin Yan
PART TWO Formation of Cooperative Alliances
Incidence and Propensity of Alliance Formation	91	(24)
Paul W. Beamish
Andrew Delios
Motivations, Partners' Contributions, and Control of International Joint Ventures	115	(20)
Julia L. Lin
Chwo-Ming J. Yu
Dah-Hsian W. Seetoo
Cooperative Strategies Between Foreign Firms in an Overseas Country	135	(22)
Yigang Pan
David K. Tse
A Comparison of the Motivation of Japanese and Canadian Participants in International Joint Ventures in Television and Film: The Role of Cultural Distance and Management Culture	157	(24)
Colin Hoskins
Stuart McFadyen
Adam Finn
PART THREE Dynamics of Partner Relationships
Ownership and Control in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures	181	(45)
John Child
Yanni Yan
Yuan Lu
Job Satisfaction in Joint Venture Hotels in China: An Organizational Justice Analysis	226	(19)
Kwok Leung
Peter B. Smith
Zhongming Wang
Haifa Sun
The Effect of Partnership, Communication, and Conflict Resolution Behaviors on Performance Success of Strategic Alliances: American and Thai Perspectives	245	(23)
Lois Bitner Olson
Kunchit Singsuwan
Diversification as a Supplementary Means of Control in International Joint Ventures: The Case of Japanese MNCs in Korea	268	(32)
J.H. Derick Sohn
Yongsun Paik
The Perspectives of Local Partners: Strategic Objectives and Structure Preferences of International Cooperative Ventures in China	300	(25)
Jiatao Li
Oded Shenkar
PART FOUR Strategy and Performance of Cooperative Alliances
An Empirical Analysis of Multinational Strategy and International Joint Venture Characteristics in Japanese MNCs	325	(16)
Jaideep Anand
R. Azimah Ainuddin
Shige Makino
Business Strategy, Investment Strategy, and Performance of International Joint Ventures: The Case of China	341	(34)
Yadong Luo
Min Chen
Local Knowledge Transfer and Performance: Implications for Alliance Formation in Asia	375	(28)
Shige Makino
Andrew Delios
Name Index	403	(12)
Subject Index	415