Shortages in materials, skilled labour and equipment are well known within construction industries, impede performance on ongoing pipeline projects. This study explores international joint ventures (ICJVs) as a resourcing model that could relieve pressures the New Zealand (NZ) industry. The goes further to identify risks constraints associated with ICJVs. There is dearth of literature role ICJV...

In this paper, we compare the characteristics of real world financial contracts to their counterparts in financial contracting theory. We do so by conducting a detailed study of actual contracts between venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreneurs. We consider VCs to be the real world entities who most closely approximate the investors of theory. (1) The distinguishing characteristic of VC finan...

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...