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Framework of joint venture development: theory building through qualitative research

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This article proposes a model for joint venture development, focusing on the formation, adjustment, and evaluation stages of organizational development. The author considers both micro- and macro-level driving conditions and forces that influence joint venture development, and discusses boundary group and intra-joint venture relations.

Switzerland, Strategic planning (Business)

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Bases of interorganization co-operation: propensity, power, persistence

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Co-operation may enable organizations to attain ends that they cannot achieve alone. However, the co-operating partners must have an unusual mix of (1) propensity, (2) power, and (3) persistence. Joint ventures are used in this article to elucidate these critical elements in the relationship. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Organizational research, Industrial cooperation

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Managers' perceptions of criteria of organizational effectiveness

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Research presented concerns how managers perceive models of organizational effectiveness, and if these perceptions differ with the understanding of academics. Topics addressed include how values impact organizational theories, and how executives develop the criteria to judge organizational effectiveness.

United Kingdom, Statistical Data Included, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Executives, Organizational effectiveness

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