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We study firms’ strategic responses to the institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs among Chinese public firms. Borrowing insights from recent literature on practice v...

Research on international joint ventures (IJVs) and international strategic alliances (ISAs) now represents a large and substantive body of research in the international management, strategic manag...

The article presents management science research on the role of social capital regarding knowledge transfers within organizations. Social capital is defined as the resources created by the network of relationships within a social unit. It is hypothesized that knowledge transfer mediates the relationship between social capital, innovative ability within the organization and financial performance. While high degrees of social capital within an organization were found to increase knowledge transfer, this was not found to result in an increase in innovation.

The article discusses research relating to the influence of power, learning, and conflict on international joint ventures. The research indicates that conflict between parent companies plays an ind...

Through studying joint ventures during the early (1993) and late phases (2001) of Hungary’s economic transition to market economy, we demonstrate how institutional and economic transformation alters foreign parents’ roles in the success of joint ventures. Foreign parent decision influence and resource provision affected market performance and knowledge acquisition differently in the two phases. We conjecture that the value of foreign partner involvement in a transition economy depends in part on the maturity of the transition.

The article presents a review of the book “Organizational Learning,” by Chris Argyris and Donald Schon.