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Joint Ventures Automobile Industry
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2,075 wordsInternational Joint Venture Ijv's (International Joint Ventures) have increased significantly in popularity in recent years (Beamish and Delios 1997) as firms find themselves under more pressure to expand internationally, to be competitive. However, international joint ventures (Ijv's) continue to be challenging to manage and, as a result, often lead to failure. In a meta-analysis of 12 past studies of Ijv's, Beamish and Delios (1997) found that the performance of between 32 and 61 percent of th...
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566 wordsInternational Joint Venture Ijv's (International Joint Ventures) have increased significantly in popularity in recent years (Beamish and Delios 1997) as firms find themselves under more pressure to expand internationally, to be competitive. However, international joint ventures (Ijv's) continue to be challenging to manage and, as a result, often lead to failure. In a meta-analysis of 12 past studies of Ijv's, Beamish and Delios (1997) found that the performance of between 32 and 61 percent of th...
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4,492 wordsChinese Economic Reform Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of Chinas leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as Chinas premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the...
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4,145 wordsCuba: On the Road to Reform by Timothy Ashby Timothy Ashby served as Director of the Office of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin of the US Department of Commerce. He is now an independent consultant based in Washington. Today Cuba is an anachronism, a small island of socialism in a hemisphere that has largely abandoned state-dominated economics, adopting market-based democracy as its path to prosperity, and is beginning to enjoy the fruits of investment and growth stemming from this transition. Sti...
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2,719 wordsINTRODUCTION The topic under review is strategic alliances. This particular form of non-equity alliance between firms in the same industry (competitors) is becoming an increasingly popular way of conducting business in the global environment. Many different reasons of why such alliances are occurring have been recognised. These include: the increasing globalisation of the worlds economy resulting in intensified global competition, the proliferation and discernment of technology, and the shorteni...
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