This study examines how and under what conditions joint ventures facilitate cooperative learning. The study analyzes how a joint-venture approach facilitates initial learning in the cooperative process and considers to what extent inter-organizational factors such as commitment, trust, control...

Average price is a numerical value that represents a set of prices, which may relate to firms, countries, or regions. This study presents new methods of average price aggregation that build on the unified aggregation operator (UAO). The UAO combines a wide range of sub-aggregation processes into...

Innovation determines a firm's competitiveness and survival and a joint venture is a fast and effective way to acquire the missing knowledge that partners require to innovate, but ‘knowing how to cooperate’ can be a determining factor in achieving the successful transfer of knowledge....

Purpose – The transfer of knowledge is a source of competitive advantage, and in particular, transfer between organisations through cooperation between firms via a joint venture. This paper aims to discuss some of the issues Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were contrasted via a...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Human resource management and corporate entrepreneurship”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discuses the articles in the special issue, which investigate the relationships between human resource management and...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to the papers presented in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – Six papers are included in the special issue and an overview of their content is given. Findings – Alteration in markets that is brought about by...