Looking inside the joint venture to help understand the link between inter‐parent cooperation and performance
研究母公司间合作与合资企业绩效的关系，发现母公司派驻经理之间的关系（如相互依赖、派系斗争、影响行为模式）在其中起中介作用，为管理者理解合资企业绩效提供了简洁模型。
Cooperation is the Holy Grail for inter‐organizational relationships, and significant research effort has been directed towards understanding its antecedents. However, the extant literature on joint ventures indicates that relatively few researchers have attempted to measure either cooperation or its organizational consequences. This paper examines the thesis that the link between inter‐parent cooperation and joint venture performance may be mediated by important conditions inside the joint venture. The findings suggest that the nature of relations between the managers transferred into the joint venture from the parents can help explain the link between joint venture performance and inter‐parent cooperation. In that regard, this research highlights the mediating roles of interdependence, factionalism, and patterns of influence behaviour. A parsimonious model is offered to help understand joint venture performance.