Launching a Viable Joint Venture

See Bartlett C.A. Ghoshal S. , Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1989); Harrigan K.R. , Strategies for Joint Ventures (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1985).

Rosten K.A. , “Soviet-U.S. Joint Ventures,” California Management Review, 33/2 (Winter 1991): 88–108; Nigh D. Walters P. Kuhlman J.A. , “U.S.-USSR Joint Ventures: An Examination of the Early Entrants,” Columbia Journal of World Business (Winter 1990), pp. 20–27; Hertzfeld J.M. , “Joint Ventures: Saving the Soviets from Perestroika,” Harvard Business Review (January 1991), pp. 80–91.

Cohen J.A. , “The Long-Awaited Cooperative Venture Law,” China Business Review (January 1991). pp. 14–18.

See “The South China Miracle: A Great Leap Forward,” The [London] Economist, October 5, 1991, pp. 14–22; Newman W.H. , “‘Focused Joint Ventures’ in Transforming Economies,” The Executive (February 1992), pp. 67–75.

A much fuller description and analysis of the launching of the Nantong Cellulose Fibers Company is given in Newman W.H. , Birth of a Successful Joint Venture (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992).

Subtle aspects of effective communication between Chinese and foreigners are analyzed in Franke R.H. Hofstede G.H. Bond M.H. , “Cultural Roots of Economic Performance,” Strategic Management Journal (Summer 1991), pp. 165–178.

Ireland J. , “Finding the Right Management Approach,” China Business Review (January 1991), pp. 14–17.