Strategic Business Alliances: An Examination of the Core Dimensions (New Horizons in International Business series)

Glaister (Leeds University Business School, UK) defines the trend of international equity joint ventures (IJVs) as a strategic alliance involving offspring of two or more active parent organizations, at least one having a significant level of operation in more than one country or headquarters outside the country of operation. Although IJVs are amenable to standard business analyses, they entail special issues, e.g., partner choice and extent of control, which require new thinking about cooperation, culture, learning, and networks. Focusing on partners from developed industrial economies, this interview and survey-based study examines dimensions of such ventures. Profiles of the 20 IJVs sampled are appended. Much of the content derives from recent conference and print material. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)