Ishii, Shinichi; Hennart, Jean-François - In: Research on knowledge, innovation and internationalization, (pp. 139-155). 2009
Purpose – We investigate whether the partnership behavior of Japanese partners in joint ventures (JVs) with European partners in Europe is better explained by the Trojan Horse Hypothesis (THH) than by the cooperative specialization (CS) view. THH assumes that Japanese firms establish JVs to...