Moderating effects of parent control on international joint ventures’ strategic objectives and performance

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 286-306

  Whitelock, Jeryl ^a   Yang, Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Joint ventures; Knowledge management; Parent companies; Performance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954264247     PISSN: 13555855     EISSN: 17584248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13555850710772941     Document Type: Article

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