What Determines Joint Venture Termination?: A Commentary Essay

Bo Bernhard Nielsen

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.022

What Determines Joint Venture Termination? A Commentary Essay

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Abstract

Joint venture (JV) research continues to flourish as researchers seek to advance our understanding of why so many JVs fail. Cui and Kumar (this issue) take a contingency approach to explain how and why business relatedness may provide new insights as to what determines JV termination. This commentary essay evaluates their study against the backdrop of a considerable literature on JV success and failure and provides guidelines as to how future research may advance the field even further. The commentary concludes that scholars need to (1) develop and position their research in a coherent, theoretical framework suitable for investigating the complex JV phenomena, (2) pay attention to the relational nature of JVs as they evolve over time, and (3) avoid mismatches between levels of theory, measurement and analysis when conducting JV research.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Business Research
Volume	65
Issue number	8
Pages (from-to)	1109-1111
Number of pages	3
ISSN	0148-2963
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.022
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

JV Termination
Multilevel Research
Relational View
Contigency Approach

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