Received: September 2001 Revised: June 2002 Accepted: August 2002 Online publication date: 20 March 2003 Abstract The evolution of foreign entry in the form of joint ventures and wholly owned manufacturing operations is examined as a staged process shaped by experience and imitation dynamics at the firm, group, and industry levels of analysis. The expansion of South Korean firms into China betw...

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The Australian-based ARIES Consortium (Australian Resource Information and Environment Satellite), a commercial joint venture between CSIRO and private industry, is on track for deployment of the ARIES-1 hyperspectral resource mapping satellite in the year 2001/2002. The ARIES-1 spectrometer will be an area array scanning up to 105 spectral bands between 0.4 2.5μm at 30m spatial resolution. The...

cal Investigator Training Program, which supports his salary and provides formal training in various aspects of clinical research. This program was set up as a joint venture of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technologies and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, supported by unrestricted educational grants from Pfizer and Merck Inc. During 2006, he was funded by the Fundaci...

With a lot of attention focused on the potential for national health care reform and the raucous town hall meetings held by various members of Congress, it is important to remember that there are three substantive changes to the Federal Ethics in Physician Self-Referrals Act (known as the “Stark Law”) scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2009. Physicians and hospitals should review their join...

DO MULTIPLE PARENTS HELP OR HINDER INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURE PERFORMANCE? THE MEDIATING ROLES OF CONTRACT COMPLETENESS AND PARTNER COOPERATION YAPING GONG,* ODED SHENKAR, YADONG LUO and MEE-KAU NYAW 1 Department of Management of Organizations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong 2 Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. 3 School...

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We reassess the respective gains from R&D cooperation and competition in a Cournot Duopoly with homogeneous goods, where firms adopt a concave cost-reducing R&D technology. Contrary to the previous literature on the same topic, our main results are that (i) no corner solutions emerge and (ii) cooperation, in the form of either a cartel or a joint venture, is always profitable for firms and (iii...

Acknowledgements: This research was supported under a Joint Venture Agreement (06-JV099) between U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s, Rocky Mountain Research Station (Flagstaff, AZ) and the Department of Economics, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM). We thank Carl Edminster and Carolyn Sieg (RMRS) for research support. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of t...

A 1.8 m X-band Damped-Detuned Structure (DDS-3) has been fabricated and characterized as part of the structure development program towards a TeV-scale e+elinear collider. In this joint venture, the copper cells were precision-fabricated by LLNL, diffusion-bonded into a monolithic structure by KEK, and the structure completed and tested by SLAC. The overall process constitutes a baseline for fut...