Les entreprises internationales doivent choisir entre aborder les marches internatiaux d'apres une formule standard ou adopter une approche differenciee (adaptation local) les etudes empiriques consacrees a cette question aboutissesnt souvent a des resultats contradictoiires. En pricipe...

Smaller and medium sized firms (SMEs) are recognised to be at a disadvantage in innovation since they lack their own R & D base and have few means of access to R & D and innovative technological developments created elsewhere. In this article the author describes the system being developed in...

Is it more or less profitable to diversify? Jacques Liouville made a survey of companies in the German mechanical engineering sector and finds it leads to two interesting lessons. First, unrelated diversification is not to be recommended; second, external growth is preferable to internal if...

Since about 1960, the industrialised countries have intervened to encourage the development of the technologies having a high growth potential. The governments of OECD countries in particular have admitted that the pursuit of economic growth and the creation of new jobs depend upon the...

In a well-known study of joint venture (JV) characteristics, Beamish (1985) compared the attributes and performance of JVs located in developed and developing countries. This study advances Beamish's (1985) work by circumventing some of its key limitations. It compares the structure and...

The economic power of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) is rapidly increasing, changing the landscape of global economics and politics. Top scholars of international business address in this vital volume the markets, strategy implications, challenges and possibilities of this new economic...

In a recent study published in this Journal [Sim, A., & Ali, Y. (1998). Performance of international joint ventures from developing and developed countries: An empirical study in a developing country context. Journal of World Business, 33(4): 357-376.] compared the attributes and performance of...