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The Exogamic Nature of Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures

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The paper suggests that Sino-foreign joint ventures areexogamicpartnerships. Three hypotheses were formulated: (1) partners pool differentiated sets of idiosyncratic and non-substitutable resources into their joint ventures; (2) they establish cooperation to gain access to resources provided by their counterparts; (3) the younger the partnership, the less the partners contribute with idiosyncratic resources. A questionnaire investigation was conducted into 67 Sino-foreign joint ventures. The test for H1 clearly demonstrated that each partner pools very different resources into the joint venture. H2 was also clearly supported by the data collected. However, H3 was weakly supported.

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Jolly, D.R. The Exogamic Nature of Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures. Asia Pacific J Manage 22, 285–306 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-005-3570-9

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