Abstract
This study holds that the development of cooperative goals instead of competitive goals among joint venture partners helps to limit free riding and promote performance in IJVs. The results collected from 75 pairs of Chinese and foreign joint venture partners suggest that productivity and participation values strengthen the partners’ beliefs that their goals are cooperatively related, which in turn, reduces free riding and promotes performance, whereas competitive goals promote free riding and obstruct joint performance. The paper also suggests how cooperation and competition research can complement established theoretical frameworks on the conditions and dynamics that result in IJV productivity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 819-830 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of World Business |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 14 Nov 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords
- Cooperative and competitive goals
- Free riding
- International joint ventures
- Participation
- Productivity