Economic Transition and International Business

10 Managing International Joint Ventures

An Organizational Learning Perspective

Van Hien Nguyen, Pierre-Yves Léo and Jean Philippe

With the globalization, companies are increasingly more developing abroad by relying on local partners, forming international joint ventures (IJV). In these joint ventures, a number of resources are pooled by foreign partners, and so the question arises of effective transfer of skills and knowledges between foreign organizations and local people. These joint ventures combine the risks and assets of multicultural organizations and have interested many researchers who mostly focused on the search of performance determinants. The main hypothesis studied here is that the organizational effectiveness of this type of ...