Publishing international (joint venture) research for impact

Abstract

Existing and potential scholars often ask whether it is possible to predict which articles will ultimately have large impact. A series of hypotheses were considered based on a citation analysis of 65 articles published from 1980 to 2003 regarding international joint ventures. It was found that a paper will tend to receive more citations as its age and the number of performance measures increases. Theory building papers tend to have more citations, followed by descriptive papers and finally hypothesis testing papers. Papers that appeared in tier 1 journals, and that considered theory in any way, explained a larger amount of the variance. Sample size was not an important predictor and explained little variance. Number of authors played no role. Collectively, the seven variables considered explained slightly less than two thirds of the total variance. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006

Meta-analyses of International Joint Venture Performance Determinants

“…Books containing IJV research (e.g., Beamish/Killing 1997) and reference lists of IJV articles (e.g., Beamish 2006) were also reviewed to search for studies. Seminal works by Friedmann and Kalmanoff (1961), Tomlinson (1970) and Franko (1971) formed the starting point for the search for studies.…”

Government corruption and foreign stakes in international joint ventures in emerging economies

“…The unit of analysis in this paper is the foreign partner's stake in the IJV and its variation with time. Building on the literature on IJV survival and performance (Barkema, Shenkar, Vermeulen, & Bell, 1997;Beamish, 2006;Dong & Gleister, 2007;Franko, 1971;Park & Russo, 1996), three changes in the equity stake may be defined for the foreign partners operating in IJVs. The first one is exit from the IJV, and corresponds either to sell-off of the foreign partner's stake or to IJV dissolution.…”

Identifying key success factors for international joint ventures in China: A foreign parent perspective from Finnish firms

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