International Construction firms have extensively used joint ventures as a vehicle to enter new construction markets in South East Asia since the early seventies. Despite its immense popularity, the failure rate of such ventures has been quite alarming. While extensive research has been carried out in the manufacturing and service industries in determining the factors that influence the perform...

Increased demand for bigger, brighter, and higher resolution large-screen, high-definition televisions and projection displays prompted a joint venture between Laser Power Corporation and Proxima Corporation to explore the use of laser technology to meet this demand. As relatively early-stage companies, the joint venture partners lacked sufficient internal funds for research and development, wh...

Construction joint ventures have attracted a lot of research interest over the last two decades. Joint venturing can allow participating companies to rapidly change the scale or scope of their businesses. However, joint ventures are often regarded as a risky business. The construction industry is associated with high degrees of risk in the nature of its business activities, operational environm...

Construction joint ventures have attracted a lot of research interest over the last two decades. Joint venturing can allow participating companies to rapidly change the scale or scope of their businesses. However, joint ventures are often regarded as a risky business. The construction industry is associated with high degrees of risk in the nature of its business activities, operational environm...

SRA used a language-independent, domain-independent, multipurpose text understanding system as the core of the M UC-5 system for extraction from English and Japanese joint venture texts, SRA 's NLP core systelll, SOLOMON, has been under development since 1986. It has been used for a variety of domains, and was aimed from the start to be language-independent, domain-independent, and application-...