A joint-venture is one of a number of possible cooperative strategies that an organization may pursue and may be constrasted to competitive strategies that are more usually referred to in the literature on business and management. This article is based upon an international study of...

This paper questions the view, that underlies much of the literature on the management of new technology, which applauds companies that strive to be at the forefront of new technology for its own sake. With particular reference to the polymer processing industry, but with implications for all...