This paper focuses on organizational learning and knowledge management through research joint ventures (RJVs) and explores the conditions that influence RJV performance. Using data from 247 Europeans firms involved in RJVs we identified four groups of RJVs according to the perceived value of RJV and the RJV performance. The effect of the locus of RJV and the learning and knowledge management on...

The aim of this paper is to test the determinants of Research Joint Ventures’ (RJVs) group dynamics. We look at entry, exit and turbulence in RJVs that have been set up under the US National Cooperative Research Act, which allows for certain antitrust exemptions in order to stimulate firms to cooperate in R&D. Accounting for unobserved project characteristics and controlling for inter-RJV inter...

We investigate theoretically and empirically the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the product innovation activity of Chinese firms. We extend the existing literature by examining a new type of spillover benefit, as well as new mechanisms by which knowledge spillovers occur. Theoretically, we extend the existing FDI spillover literature that mainly focuses on industry-level spillover...