Paul W. Beamish is a professor at Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, is editor-in-chief of the ^IJournal of International Business Studies.

PrefaceThe Authors Part One: Advances in Theories of Cooperative Strategies 1. International Joint Venture Decision Making(Yuan Lu and Igmar Bjorkman) 2. Cooperative Strategies and Chinese Business Networks: A Study of Hong Kong Transnational Corporations in the ASEAN Region(Henry Wai-chung Yeung) 3. Formation and Evolution of International Joint Ventures: Examples from U.S.-Chinese Partnerships(Barbara Gray and Aimin Yan) Part Two: Formation of Cooperative Alliances 4. Incidence and Propensity of Alliance Formations(Paul W. Beamish and Andrew Delios) 5. Motivations, Partners' Contributions, and Control of International Joint Ventures(Julia L. Lin, Chwo-Ming J. Yu, and Dah-Hsian W. Seetoo) 6. Cooperative Strategies Between Foreign Firms in an Overseas Country(Yigang Pan and David K.. Tse) 7. A Comparison of the Motivations of Japanese and Canadian Participants in International Joint Ventures in Television and Film: The Role of Cultural Distance and Management Culture(Colin Hoskins, Stuart McFadyen, and Adam Finn) Part Three: Dynamics of Partner Relationships 8. Ownership and Control in Sino-Foreign Joint Ventures(John Child, Yanni Yan, and Yuan Lu) 9. Job Satisfaction in Joint Venture Hotels in China: An Organizational Justice Analysis(Kwock Leung, Peter B. Smith, Zhongming Wang, and Haifa Sun) 10. The Efffect of Partnership, Communication, and Conflict Resolution Behaviors on Performance Success of Strategic Alliances: American and Thai Perspectives(Lois Bitner Olsen and Kunchit Singsuwan) 11. Diversification as a Supplementary Means of Control in International Joint Ventures: The Case of Japanese MNCs in Korea(J.H. Derick Sohn and Yongsun Paik) 12. The Perspectives of Local Partners: Strategic Objectives and Structure Preferences of International Cooperative Ventures in China(Jiatao Li and Oded Shenkar) Part Four: Strategy and Performance of Cooperative Alliances 13. An Empirical Analysis of Multinational Strategy and International Joint Venture Characteristics in Japanese MNCs(Jaideep Anand, R. Azimah Ainuddin, and Shige Makino) 14. Business Strategy, Investment Strategy, and Performance of International Joint Ventures(Yadong Luo and Min Chen) 15. Local Knowledge Transfer and Performance: Implications for Alliance Formation in Asia(Shige Makino and Andrew Delios).