International joint ventures

the long version

International Joint Ventures Economic and Organizational Perspectives results from the Symposium on International Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances, held by the Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation at the Pennsylvania State University. The purpose of this volume is to provide a cross-disciplinary treatment of the economic and managerial issues affecting joint venture formation, operation and performance, including a range of subjects from the impact of international trade policy to cross-cultural communication on joint venture operations. The volume seeks to enrich the understanding of each discipline from the vantage point of the other in order to build a more complete understanding of joint ventures as a mode of entry into domestic and international markets. The economic and strategic analysis of joint ventures, especially those concerned with research and development, has focused on two categories of questions. The first is issues of importance to the joint potential and actual participants in a joint venture. The second category of questions relates to the social effects of joint ventures and adopts the point of view of society as a whole or its agent, the regulator. The contributions in this volume address these questions, using simple theoretical models and conceptual discussions as well as empirical analyses. International Joint Ventures Economic and Organizational Perspectives will be of interest to executives, policy makers and scholars from economics, decision analysis, political science and management.