Managing international joint ventures to improve performance: The role of structural and social mechanisms

Ali, Tahir; Khalid, Saba; Shahzad, Khuram; Larimo, Jorma

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101791

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“…Given the “finish and dissolve” nature of ICJVs (Tetteh et al. , 2020), collecting reliable data from ICJVs that have been dissolved for more than a decade was very unlikely as respondents usually have hazy memories about past events (Ali et al. , 2021).…”

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“…To establish the sample frame for this study, the sample was limited to IJVs, which met the following two criteria: (1) IJVs operating in the construction/infrastructure sector were considered; and (2) IJVs established within the last 10 years were considered, to obtain accurate and reliable information from the respondents. Given the "finish and dissolve" nature of ICJVs (Tetteh et al, 2020), collecting reliable data from ICJVs that have been dissolved for more than a decade was very unlikely as respondents usually have hazy memories about past events (Ali et al, 2021). Following these two criteria resulted in a sample frame of 134 ICJVs organizations.…”

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Impacts of management control mechanisms on the performance of international construction joint ventures: an empirical study

Tetteh

Chan

Nani

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ECAM

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PurposeWhile previous studies have focused on identifying management control (MC) mechanisms in international construction joint ventures (ICJVs), the impacts of such MC mechanisms on the performance of ICJVs remain largely unknown. This study aims to investigate the impacts of MC mechanisms on the performance of ICJVs hosted in the developing country of Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThrough a comprehensive review of the literature, a theoretical model was developed, and data were collected through a questionnaire survey with 190 project managers composed of Ghanaians/locals and their foreign partners of ICJVs. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling.FindingsResults showed that both personnel and support and training control mechanisms have a positive and significant impact on project and company/partner performance. Surprisingly, insignificant and negative impacts exist between both mechanisms and socioenvironmental and company/partner performance from the local partners' view, respectively; the reverse is rather true from the foreign partners' perspective.Practical implicationsThis study contributes to the ICJV body of knowledge by analyzing the impacts of MC mechanisms on the ICJVs’ performance, enabling ICJVs frontliners (i.e. top managers) and project managers to better enhance their control structures and the ICJVs’ performance.Originality/valueThis is arguably the first study to take the bipartite perspective rather than the unilateral view of studying the impacts of MC mechanisms on the performance of ICJVs.

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Impacts of management control mechanisms on the performance of international construction joint ventures: an empirical study

Tetteh

Chan

Nani

et al. 2022

ECAM

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“…The success of such relationships are usually defined by certain transactional and relational factors, such as, interdependence, trust, commitment, communication etc. [9], [26], [27], while the quality of these relationships determine how firms can survive in crises and can bounce back after the pandemic.…”

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Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Digital Innovation and Transformation

Shahzad

Imran

2021

Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices

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The Covid-19 pandemic, by effecting businesses, is inciting inter-and intra-organizational challenges requiring firms to adopt and/or adapt approaches that facilitate in managing business operations. Confronting such epidemic and its related challenges is importantly based on efficient internal and external collaboration. Interorganizational trust is also becoming fragile particularly in uncertain situations such as current pandemic. Therefore, firms are struggling to even survive as their whole supply chain has erupted and lacking trust on external partners. In such circumstances, digital transformation is preparing organizations to address these issues and can support them to provide the opportunities to cope up and bounce back. This means that digital innovation and transformation seem to be playing a crucial role in recovering from the effect of Covid-19. Therefore, this paper taps on the topical issue of the varying impact of Covid-19 on internal and external operations of firms and how digital innovation and transformation play a critical role keep-up with 'new normal' routines.

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“…Therefore, performance improvement is more attainable if the foreign parent exerts managerial control, either implicitly or explicitly, over the subsidiary to mitigate agency problems. Departing from extant studies that examine various means through which the parent exerts managerial control over its subsidiaries (Chang & Taylor, 1999;Tan & Mahoney, 2005;Aguilera & Crespi-Cladera, 2016;Ali, Khalid, Shahzad, & Larimo, 2021), we focus on post foreign buyout CEO succession as a compelling form of managerial control. We compare post buyout performance between subsidiaries that experienced CEO succession subsequent to the foreign buyout and those that did not, and we hypothesize that it is only in the former that positive performance improvement may be attainable.…”

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Foreign buyout of international equity joint ventures in China: When does performance improve?

Duanmu

Lawton

2021

Journal of World Business

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Managing international joint ventures to improve performance: The role of structural and social mechanisms

Cited by 28 publications

References 72 publications

Impacts of management control mechanisms on the performance of international construction joint ventures: an empirical study

Impacts of management control mechanisms on the performance of international construction joint ventures: an empirical study

Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Digital Innovation and Transformation

Foreign buyout of international equity joint ventures in China: When does performance improve?

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