How do international joint ventures create shareholder value?

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 723-737

  Merchant, Hemant ^a   Schendel, Dan ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

International joint ventures; Joint venture performance; Shareholder value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000264020     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0266(200007)21:7<723::AID-SMJ114>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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