International joint venture partner origin, strategic choice, and performance: A comparative analysis in an emerging economy in Africa
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Moses Acquaah, Professor and Department Head (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This study examines the competitive strategic choices of international joint ventures (IJVs) and their performance implications in a low-income emerging economy in Sub-Saharan Africa — Ghana. Using the resource-based view of the firm, it is argued that IJVs with partners from emerging economies are more likely to pursue an efficiency-oriented business strategy to strengthen their strategic positioning, competitiveness and performance. Conversely, IJVs with partners from advanced industrialized economies would be more likely to pursue a market effectiveness-oriented strategy to strengthen their strategic positioning, competitiveness and performance. The findings from 76 IJVs offer support for the hypothesized relationships. IJVs with partners from emerging economies implementing an efficiency-oriented strategy of cost leadership outperform those with partners from advanced industrialized economies implementing the same strategy. In contrast, IJVs with partners from advanced industrialized economies implementing a differentiation strategy outperform those with partners from emerging economies implementing a differentiation strategy.
International joint venture partner origin, strategic choice, and performance: A comparative analysis in an emerging economy in Africa
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of International Management, 15(1): 46-60
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- IJV partner origin, competitive strategy, IJV performance, advanced economies, emerging economies, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana