TY - JOUR
T1 - Productivity and participation values for cooperative goals to limit free riding and promote performance in international joint ventures
AU - WONG, Shiu Ho, Alfred
AU - WEI, Lu
AU - YANG, Jie
AU - TJOSVOLD, Dean William
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cooperative and competitive goals
KW - Free riding
KW - International joint ventures
KW - Participation
KW - Productivity
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6682
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031785154&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2017.08.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2017.08.002
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 52
SP - 819
EP - 830
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 6
ER -