Strategic alliances, organisational learning and new product development: the cases of Rover and Seat

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International technology alliances represent a vehicle for accessing new competitive technologies as it enables the partners to share the risks and costs linked to new product development and to more effectively use production capabilities and manufacturing facilities. Such alliances, however, have a success rate of only 50%. A study therefore investigated two examples of companies which entered into international joint ventures and their success or failure within the context of the new product development process.

Europe, Motor Vehicles & Parts, Transportation Equipment Manufacturing, Motor Vehicles and Equipment, Statistical Data Included, Analysis, Case studies, Joint ventures, Industrial research, Automobile industry, Volkswagen AG, Product development, Honda Motor Company Ltd., Strategic alliances (Business), Research and development partnership, Research and development partnerships, Rover Group Ltd., Cooperative industrial research, Cooperative research, Sociedad Espanola de Automoviles de Turismo S.A.

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U.S. says Japan, Brazil dumped steel; price cuts called illegal; steep tariffs planned

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The Commerce Dept. has ruled stiff tariffs will be imposed on Asia and Brazil for importing steel to the U.S. far below legal prices. If the final ruling is the same as this preliminary ruling, the tariffs will be retroactive to November 1998. 'Dumping' has been on the decline in recent weeks even without the ruling. Being a combination of economics and politics, the ruling does not include Russia at the present time.

United States, Iron and Steel Mills, International economic relations, Blast furnaces and steel mills, Brazil, Carbon Steel, Laws, regulations and rules, Abstract, Steel industry, Dumping (International trade), Tariffs, United States. Department of Commerce

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