Performance Issues in U.S.–China Joint Ventures

Based on an in-depth study of U.S.-China joint ventures, this article offers some insights into the performance of such international business relationships. While the conventional literature treats government as an amorphous aspea of the political-legal environment, in this case government is an active participant and influence in the performance of international joint ventures (UVs). It has both a constraining and enabling effect on LJV structure, strategy, and performance. For example, limits can be placed on ownership shares of joint ventures and on prices of the output. At the same time, government can cooperate with LJVs and foreign parent companies by creating partners for foreign parent companies, acting as major customers, and improving financial performance by lowering taxes

Global Trends 2030: AlternAtive Worlds a publication of the National Intelligence Council

"This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories during the next 15-20 years. As with the niC’s previous Global trends reports, we do not seek to predict the future—which would be an impossible feat—but instead provide a framework for thinking about possible futures and their implications."National Intelligence Council (U.S.

Vietnamese storage of remains of unaccounted US personnel /

"ICA 96-05.""October 1996."Cover title.Mode of access: Internet

Emerging or reemerging disease threat since 1990 /

"MPG 764135AI 8-03".At head of title: Figure 1.From: SARS : down but still a threat / prepared under the auspices of Karen Monaghan, 2003

Cumulative number of reported probable SARS cases/deaths (1 November 2002 to 8 July 2003) /

"763959AI (R02531) 7-03".At head of title: Figure 4.From: SARS : down but still a threat / prepared under the auspices of Karen Monaghan, 2003

Typology of countries by health-care status, December 2002 /

"MPG 764521AI (R02531) 8-03".At head of title: Figure 5.From: SARS : down but still a threat / prepared under the auspices of Karen Monaghan, 2003

Portrait of a superspreader : spread of SARS from the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong as of 28 March 2003 /

"MPG 764195AI (R00602) 8-03".At head of title: Figure 2.From: SARS : down but still a threat / prepared under the auspices of Karen Monaghan, 2003