Learning through the international joint venture: lessons from the experience of China's automotive sector

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Learning through the international joint venture: lessons from the experience of China's automotive sector
Nam, K.-M. (2011)
Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(3): 855-907

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Abstract/Summary:

This study explores why international joint ventures (IJVs) based on the global South may meet with only partial success in nurturing local technological capability. The experience of China’s passenger-vehicle sector demonstrates that in the existence of a substantial technological capability gap between alliance partners, the IJV arrangement is likely to create a “passive” learning mode, and learners using this IJV arrangement may be able to strengthen their production capability but leaving their project execution and innovation capabilities largely undeveloped.

Citation:

Nam, K.-M. (2011): Learning through the international joint venture: lessons from the experience of China's automotive sector. Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(3): 855-907 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtr015)
  • Joint Program Reprint
  • Journal Article
Learning through the international joint venture: lessons from the experience of China's automotive sector

Nam, K.-M.

Abstract/Summary: 

This study explores why international joint ventures (IJVs) based on the global South may meet with only partial success in nurturing local technological capability. The experience of China’s passenger-vehicle sector demonstrates that in the existence of a substantial technological capability gap between alliance partners, the IJV arrangement is likely to create a “passive” learning mode, and learners using this IJV arrangement may be able to strengthen their production capability but leaving their project execution and innovation capabilities largely undeveloped.