Autonomy and dependence of international cooperative ventures: an exploration of the strategic performance of U.S. ventures in Mexico
研究了美国与墨西哥成熟合资企业中，母公司的资源贡献如何影响美方经理对合资企业绩效的评价，发现合资企业在关键领域需要自主性，同时某些战略依赖对成功也很重要。
Abstract Researchers have begun to view international cooperative ventures as complex, multiparty organizations in which foreign and local firms and the venture itself all have distinctive roles. This approach has important implications for the venture strategies of foreign firms in emerging economies. This study explores relationships between the resource contributions of parent firms and U.S. managers' assessment of venture performance in a sample of established U.S.–Mexican ventures. The research suggests that mature cooperative ventures are expected to achieve autonomy from parent firms in key areas at the same time that certain forms of strategic dependency also are important to success. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.