Preface

The Authors

PART ONE Advances in Theories of Cooperative Strategies

International Joint Venture Decision Making

Yuan Lu

Ingmar Bjorkman

Cooperative Strategies and Chinese Business Networks: A Study of Hong Kong Transnational Corporations in the ASEAN Region

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Formation and Evolution of International Joint Ventures: Examples from U.S.-Chinese Partnerships

Barbara Gray

Aimin Yan

PART TWO Formation of Cooperative Alliances

Incidence and Propensity of Alliance Formation

Paul W. Beamish

Andrew Delios

Motivations, Partners' Contributions, and Control of International Joint Ventures

Julia L. Lin

Chwo-Ming J. Yu

Dah-Hsian W. Seetoo

Cooperative Strategies Between Foreign Firms in an Overseas Country

Yigang Pan

David K. Tse

A Comparison of the Motivation of Japanese and Canadian Participants in International Joint Ventures in Television and Film: The Role of Cultural Distance and Management Culture

Colin Hoskins

Stuart McFadyen

Adam Finn

PART THREE Dynamics of Partner Relationships

Ownership and Control in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures

John Child

Yanni Yan

Yuan Lu

Job Satisfaction in Joint Venture Hotels in China: An Organizational Justice Analysis

Kwok Leung

Peter B. Smith

Zhongming Wang

Haifa Sun

The Effect of Partnership, Communication, and Conflict Resolution Behaviors on Performance Success of Strategic Alliances: American and Thai Perspectives

Lois Bitner Olson

Kunchit Singsuwan

Diversification as a Supplementary Means of Control in International Joint Ventures: The Case of Japanese MNCs in Korea

J.H. Derick Sohn

Yongsun Paik

The Perspectives of Local Partners: Strategic Objectives and Structure Preferences of International Cooperative Ventures in China

Jiatao Li

Oded Shenkar

PART FOUR Strategy and Performance of Cooperative Alliances

An Empirical Analysis of Multinational Strategy and International Joint Venture Characteristics in Japanese MNCs

Jaideep Anand

R. Azimah Ainuddin

Shige Makino

Business Strategy, Investment Strategy, and Performance of International Joint Ventures: The Case of China

Yadong Luo

Min Chen

Local Knowledge Transfer and Performance: Implications for Alliance Formation in Asia

Shige Makino

Andrew Delios

Name Index

Subject Index