While movement of students between domestic and foreign universities slows, China’s joint-venture model is gaining traction.

The Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care, issued by the FTC and the DOJ, dramatically change how the agencies evaluate physician joint venture networks. This article analyzes the Statements, providing useful guidance to the health lawyer.

In today's competitive market, technology transfer is an important problem for firms, organizations and governments. Therefore, making right decisions on selecting a suitable technology and designing an appropriate process to transfer it may have significant influence on the performance of organizations. In this paper, we present a new method to obtain a suitable technology transfer strategy fo...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the firms’ behavior in the product market on their decisions at the R&D stage. We compare the consequences of the Stackelberg-type competition of two firms for the R&D investments with the situation of a cartelized industry under the assumption of quadratic cost functions. Numerical analysis shows that the lowest values of R&D efforts occur ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the choice between establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) or entering into a joint venture (JV) as made by Catalan manufacturing firms investing abroad. The validity of certain key transaction-cost hypotheses in this case is tested using binomial logistic regression. Results indicate that a Catalan manufacturing firm is more ...

This research focuses on how local partner learn knowledge from foreign partner in Japanese joint venture in emerging economies context. Contribution of this research is as follows. First, by distinguishing the type and characteristics of each process, this typology enhances our understanding about JV as useful organizational learning mechanism, particularly in Japanese joint venture in emergin...