Strategic Capacity Planning Problems in Revenue‐Sharing Joint Ventures

Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, and Collaboration in Telecommunications

Joint ventures among telecommunications firms have become increasingly common in recent years. These joint ventures have occurred in almost all areas of telecommunications including information services, manufacturing, and mobile service. The firms involved in the collaboration have often been domestic U.S. corporations, such as AT&T and GTE, or international corporations, such as GPT (General ...

Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures under Nafta: Concepts and Evidence

Cooperative business relationships are dramatically changing the structure of the North American agri-food sector. An examination of recent events in the grain industry reveals the extent to which cooperative ventures are becoming integrated into international agribusiness. When Cargill decided to expand its presence in Canada it participated in several joint ventures, one with Hazzard Farm Ser...

Coordinating capacity investment and allocation in joint ventures

Among the recent innovative strategies for coping with product variety and market risk some firms have partnered to leverage economies of scale and risk pooling by sharing manufacturing capacity. In this paper we study how to structure such a joint venture to achieve full efficiency at low transaction costs. Specifically, we study whether capacity should be owned jointly or separately. Overall,...

Do joint ventures and strategic alliances create value for bondholders?

This paper investigates whether joint ventures and strategic alliances create value for bondholders by examining the bond market’s reaction to announcements of these two types of cooperative business activities. Based on 2964 announcements from 1985 to 2011, we find that joint ventures and strategic alliances create significant value for bondholders. The average two-month abnormal bond return i...

For-profit ventures pose access and capacity problems.