Abstract Every year thousands of firms are engaged in research joint ventures (RJV), where all knowledge gained through and development (R&D) is shared among members. Most the empirical literature assumes members non-cooperative product market. But many RJV rivals leaving open possibility that may form RJVs to facilitate market collusion. We examine this by exploiting variation formation ge...

Purpose – Investigate the Joint Venture International performance determinants’ relevance at each point of their life cycle.Design/methodology/approach Determinants already mapped in literature were identified and grouped into three dimensions: internal, industrial institutional. A questionnaire was developed sent to academics managers, which requested them order dimensions determinants present...