WORKING ABROAD, WORKING WITH OTHERS: HOW FIRMS LEARN TO OPERATE INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES.
研究了企业如何通过国内合资和海外全资子公司的经验来延长国际合资企业的寿命，发现国内合资和海外全资经验有帮助，但国际合资经验本身无显著作用。
Successful international joint ventures entail both learning to operate across national boundaries and learning to cooperate. Hypotheses grounded in organizational learning theory were tested with event-history analysis and data on 1,493 expansions of 25 large Dutch firms between 1966 and 1994. Experience with domestic joint ventures and with international wholly owned subsidiaries contributed to the longevity of international joint ventures, but prior experience with international joint ventures did not.