Wong Chai Ming, Simon. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstract --- p.ii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter ´ؤ --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Objectives --- p.1 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Methodology --- p.2 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Limitations --- p.3 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- China's Economy / Chapter ´ؤ --- Introduction --- p.4 / Chapter ´ؤ --- China before1949 --- p.4 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "Economic Development, 1949-77" --- p.5 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "Economic Reforms & Open Door Policy, 1978-91" --- p.7 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Economic Structure & Problems9 --- p.9 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Foreign Trade --- p.11 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Summary --- p.12 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Foreign Direct Investment in China / Chapter ´ؤ --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Foreign Direct Investment --- p.14 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "Foreign Direct Investment in china, 1979-91" --- p.14 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Why Does China Need Foreign Direct Investment --- p.15 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Why do Foreigners Invest in China --- p.17 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Forms of Foreign Investment --- p.18 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Where Does Foreign Investment Take place --- p.20 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Who are the Investors and What do they Invest --- p.24 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Approval of Joint Ventures --- p.25 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Summary --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Export Share Requirements in china / Chapter ´ؤ --- Introduction --- p.31 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Export Share Requirements --- p.31 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Contractual Export share Requirements in China --- p.32 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Why Does China use Export Share Policy --- p.34 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Export Enterprises & Technologically Advanced Enterprises --- p.41 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Attitudes of Foreign Investors on Export Share Requirements --- p.42 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Interplay of China's Policy and Investors' Strategies --- p.44 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Summary --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Surveys of Export Share Requirements in china / Chapter ´ؤ --- Introduction --- p.50 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Cases Reported in the Literature --- p.50 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Interpretation of Cases with the Factor-Share Matrix --- p.55 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Summary of Case Survey Findings --- p.56 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Questionnaire Survey --- p.56 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Interpretation of Questionnaire results with the Factor-Share Matrix --- p.57 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Summary of Questionnaire Survey Findings --- p.59 / Chapter 一 --- Comparison of Case and Questionnaire Survey Findings --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Appraisal of Export Share Requirements in China / Chapter ´ؤ --- Introduction --- p.84 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Theoretical Basis --- p.84 / Chapter 一 --- International Comparison --- p.86 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Economic Performance Appraisal --- p.89 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Future Directions --- p.93 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Summary --- p.95 / Chapter Appendix A --- The Questionnaire --- p.101 / Bibliography --- p.105

by Chan Tsz Fai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-136). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / 撮要 --- p.v / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.x / Chapter CHAPTER I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.6 / Contemporary IJVs in China --- p.6 / Prior Analysis of IJV Partnership and Performance --- p.9 / Definition of JVs Partnership --- p.9 / Performance --- p.10 / Relationship between Partnership and Performance --- p.10 / Japanese Investment in China --- p.12 / IJVs Problem in China: A Global Perspective --- p.15 / Cultural Differences --- p.16 / Language Barrier --- p.18 / Cross Cultural Negotiation Style --- p.19 / Management Style --- p.20 / Government Policies --- p.22 / Disparate Management Style between Foreign-Chinese IJVs Partnership --- p.23 / Chinese Enterprises with Foreign Exchange Shortages --- p.25 / Lack of Strong Technology Base of Chinese Enterprises --- p.26 / Inadequate Infrastructure Support --- p.31 / Hong Kong Firms' Advantage in Interconnecting Economic and Socio-Cultural Systems between the East and the West --- p.35 / The Role of Hong Kong Companies: the Source of Boosting the Competitive Advantage of Future Foreign-Chinese Joint Venture --- p.35 / Intermediary Organization --- p.37 / Hong Kong: as an Economic Center for Trade and Investment to China --- p.40 / The Japan --- p.41 / China --- p.42 / "Opportunities, Geographical Location and Human Factors have Brought About Hong Kong's Unique Status and Role in China's Opening Up" --- p.42 / "Similarity Between Hong Kong, China and The West (Japan)" --- p.43 / Trade Policy --- p.43 / Language --- p.44 / Geographical Proximity --- p.44 / Infrastructure --- p.45 / "Similarity in Cultural Systems Between Hong Kong, China and the West" --- p.45 / Why the Intermediary Organization Formed: The Theory of International Trade in Intermediary Services --- p.50 / Decentralization and Intermediation --- p.51 / Hong Kong Firm as a Facilitator --- p.52 / Chapter (1) --- Hong Kong as a Local Conduit/Gateway to the Local Market --- p.52 / Chapter (2) --- Hong Kong as a Location for Different Kind of Firms --- p.56 / Chapter (3) --- Hong Kong as a Training Center for Foreign and Chinese Expatriates --- p.57 / Chapter (4) --- Hong Kong as Versatile Chinese Experts for Both Foreign and Chinese Firms --- p.59 / Chapter (5) --- Hong Kong as a Source of Availability of Professional Firm --- p.60 / Chapter (6) --- Hong Kong as a Trading and Infrastructure Center of China Trade --- p.61 / Hong Kong as a Financier --- p.62 / Chapter (1) --- Hong Kong Firm as the Leading Role in Syndicating Loans --- p.64 / Chapter (2) --- Hong Kong Firm as an Investor --- p.65 / Hong Kong firm as Packager and Integrator --- p.66 / Technological Propensity --- p.67 / Flexible Response in Their Strategies --- p.68 / Packaging and Integration Capability --- p.68 / Hong Kong as a Trading Partner --- p.69 / Chapter (1) --- Hong Kong as a Supply Source of Commodities-Domestic Export to China --- p.70 / Chapter (2) --- Hong Kong as a Consumer of Chinese Goods --- p.72 / Hong Kong as Middleman --- p.73 / Significance of Entrepot Trade (Re-export) --- p.73 / The Prospect of the Hong Kong Firms as a Middleman --- p.74 / Summary --- p.75 / Chapter CHAPTER III --- HYPOTHESES DEVELOPMENT --- p.79 / Hypothesis 1 --- p.83 / Hypothesis 2 --- p.85 / Comparison of IJVs' Performance in Non-metropolitan Regions against Metropolitan regions: Do Hong Kong Firms Really Help the Japanese and Chinese IJVs --- p.85 / Hypothesis 3 (a) --- p.87 / Hypothesis 3 (b) --- p.89 / Hypothesis 3 (c) --- p.91 / Chapter CHAPTER IV --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.93 / Sample --- p.93 / The Database of Japanese Entries --- p.93 / Measurement --- p.95 / Dependent Variables --- p.95 / Independent Variables --- p.96 / Subsidiary Type --- p.96 / Regional Variable --- p.97 / Chapter CHAPTER V --- DATA ANALYSIS --- p.99 / Chapter CHAPTER VI --- FINDING AND DISCUSSION --- p.103 / Evaluation of Hypotheses --- p.103 / Interfirm diversity and Performance --- p.104 / Local Familiarity and Performance --- p.105 / Challenges to Hong Kong firms as an Intermediators --- p.108 / The Short-sight of Hong Kong Manufacturers --- p.113 / Chapter CHAPTER VII --- CONCLUSION --- p.119 / Implication of Hong Kong Enterprises --- p.120 / Implication for Theory Development --- p.122 / Limitations --- p.123 / REFERENCES --- p.128

In this study, three theoretical frameworks (i.e., justice framework, job security framework and trust framework) and the constructs of affective commitment and loyalty to supervisor are combined in two competing models in order to study the antecedents and the consequences of organizational commitment in the context of Chinese joint ventures. The two models include distributive justice, procedural justice, job security and trust in organization as the antecedents of affective commitment; interactional justice and guanxi with an immediate supervisor as the antecedents of loyalty to supervisor; employees' turnover intention as the outcome variable of affective commitment; and employees' performance as the outcome variable of loyalty to supervisor. / Joint ventures have become a major form of foreign investment in China since it adopted its open-door economic policy, but little is known about the factors that affect job attitudes of local employees in Chinese joint ventures. Empirical studies of affective commitment and loyalty, to supervisor in Chinese joint ventures have received relatively little research attention. This dissertation fills the gap by investigating factors affecting joint venture employees' affective commitment and loyalty to supervisor in Mainland China. / The results showed that the mediation model was better supported than the direct effect model. The findings also showed that trust in organization on affective commitment mediates the relationship between perceived distributive justice, perceived procedural justice, perceived job security and affective commitment at the organizational level; trust in supervisor on loyalty to supervisor mediates the relationship between perceived interactional justice and loyalty to supervisor at the supervisory level. Practically, the findings of the antecedents and consequences of Chinese joint ventures employees' affective commitment and loyalty to supervisor have considerable implications in managing people in joint ventures. Based on the analysis, implications for future studies of joint venture employees' organizational commitment in Mainland China are also derived. / Wong Yui-tim. / "July 2000." / Adviser: Ngo Hang-yue. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-08, Section: A, page: 3258. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-163). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Mauricio Sancho Obregón. / M.S.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989.

The issue of Japan's heavy dependence on Middle Eastern oil has attracted a lot of attention in the political and academic circles for the reason that Japan is the second biggest consumer and the largest importer of oil in the world. Consequently, any action by Japan would not only have a major impact on petroleum markets, but also on international relations, security and on the Middle East itself. In the late 1960s Japan began negotiations with Iran, her biggest oil supplier at that time, about the establishment of a petrochemical joint venture. These negotiations led to the creation of the Iran Japan Petrochemical Company (UPC) in 1973. This study examines the different reasons why the main partners, Mitsui Bussan of Japan and the National Petrochemical Company of Iran as well as their respective governments, were so interested in the idea of a joint venture. It traces the troubled history of UPC from the preliminary negotiations in 1968, through two decades which saw the Iranian Revolution and the setting up of an Islamic state, the Iran-Iraq War, and two oil crises, until its dissolution in 1990. The research reveals conflicts of interest between Japanese and Iranian motivations behind the venture, between the goals of the privately owned Mitsui Bussan and the state-run National Petrochemical Company as well as their contrasting organisational and managerial styles, which led to the failure of UPC and its eventual dissolution. Using the case of IJPC as an example, the study argues that the setting up of a joint venture of this nature was an inappropriate response to the main purposes of each nation, i.e. the Japanese desire for a stable oil supply and the Iranian desire for rapid industrialisation and transfer of technology. Finally, it suggest alternative policies through which each country could achieve its respective ambitions.

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This study investigates international equity joint ventures (IJVs) and South African partner firm value creation at formation. In addition, it tests whether four contentious formation characteristics, namely, the geographical location of the IJV partner, the level of economic development in the IJV partner’s home country, the level of equity held by the South African firm and the industry of the South African firm, can explain when South African IJVs are value enhancing and when they are value diminishing. IJVs are a popular business mode and an important channel for infrastructure and skills investment in developing countries. However, despite their popularity and potential social benefits, these IJVs are predominantly created by the decisions of private firms to collaborate with foreign firms and governments. Consequently the preservation and development of the IJV investment channel is dependent on the encouragement of private firm IJV participation. It is at uncovering potential tools to encourage IJV participation by South African firms that IJV firm value creation becomes important because it stands as a motivator for South African firms’ involvement in IJVs. Existing literature on IJVs and partner firm value has presented conflicting evidence with support for the views that they are value enhancing, value diminishing or of no immediate consequence to their partners’ firm value. Consequently, previous research offers limited firm value support for IJVs. For South African firms considering joint ventures and national policy makers determined to promote IJVs there is a need for an investigation of South African partner IJV firm value effects. Moreover, it is also necessary to test potential explanatory variables that may help to explain when the IJVs are value enhancing and when they are not as this will inform IJV contract negotiations and how limited national government resources are used to promote IJVs. In order to assess firm value creation for South African firms this study performed event studies on IJV formation announcements from 1998 to 2011 using daily share returns from the Johannesburg Securities Exchange taking care to incorporate recent developments in the event study methodology. The study found that while the market responds to IJV announcements, its responses do not, on average, reflect that IJVs are firm value enhancing for their South African partners at formation. This stands in contrast to considerable empirical literature and IJV firm value creation theory. In addition, factoring in formation characteristics, argued to potentially help explain cases of value creation and destruction from IJVs, provided limited explanation for positive and negative wealth effectsfor South African firms entering IJVs. This result has important value for IJV participants, national economic policy makers and IJV researchers. For IJV participants and national policy makers, the results caution unfettered entry/support for IJVs and challenge the role of equity distribution in determining the value of the IJV to its partner firms. For IJV researchers, the results present new evidence questioning IJV firm value creation at formation and provide a potential explanation for the conflict in previous IJV research. The study makes four key contributions to the existing knowledge of IJV firm value creation. Firstly, it assesses IJV wealth effects for the hitherto untested South African IJVs. Secondly, in doing so it adds a new data set (South African IJVs) to the current IJV literature. Thirdly, in reviewing the literature on IJV firm value creation the study presents a disaggregated model of IJV firm value creation from which to develop IJV research and potentially solve the persistent conflict in empirical results on IJV partner wealth effects. Finally, it informs future South African IJV agreements by uncovering factors that influence and do not influence partner wealth effects for South African firms.

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Ce travail de recherche doctoral vise à examiner les interactions entre les multinationales, les entreprises algériennes et leurs firmes communes et identifier l’impact sur la structure et la culture développée au sein de celle-ci.Il vise également à examiner les caractéristiques de la structure et de la culture des alliances dyadiques internationales et comprendre leurs spécificités dans le contexte algérien.Enfin, un autre objectif assigné est l’examen du modèle décisionnel au sein de l’alliance et l’identification des rôles joués par la joint-venture, le parent local et la multinationale.Pour ce faire nous partons du constat, issu de la littérature, stipulant que les multinationales en position de force, chercheront à imposer leur modèle de structure à la firme commune et de développer leur culture d’origine au sein de celle-ci. Elles chercheront également à dominer la relation et centraliser l’ensemble des décisions.A partir d’une étude de deux cas d’alliances, l’un conclu dans le secteur hôtelier avec une multinationale française et l’autre conclu dans le secteur pharmaceutique avec une multinationale américaine, nous démontrons que ces constats théoriques, ne sont que partiellement confirmés au sein des alliances étudiées.Cette recherche effectuée s’est insérée dans un travail de terrain, avec une étude à la fois qualitative et quantitative, sur un territoire algérien, où aucune étude similaire n’a été conduite, à notre connaissance.Nous démontrons que la multinationale impose sont modèle organisationnel, mais ne parvient pas entièrement à développer sa culture commune au sein de l’alliance.Nous démontrons également que les multinationales dominent certaines décisions managériales et partagent d’autres avec le partenaire local. Et que lorsque la multinationale tente de dominer l’ensemble, des représailles concurrentielles peuvent être envisagées par l’allié et toucher ses intérêts.Nous avons également dégagé, des caractéristiques de la structure et de la culture des alliances internationales, étudiées en contexte algérien.D’un autre côté, l’étude des alliances dyadiques internationales en contexte algérien ; semble faire apparaître l’existence de différences de comportement de l’alliance et du parent local, en fonction du statut « public » ou « privé » de ce dernier. / This work of doctoral research aims to examine the interactions between multinationals, Algerian companies and their common firms and identify the impact on the structure and culture developed within it. It also aims to examine the characteristics of the structure and culture of international dyadic alliances and understand their specificities in the Algerian context.Finally, another objective it is reviewing the decision model in the alliance and the identification of the roles of the joint venture, the local parent and the multinational.To do this we assume acknowledged, in literature, stipulating that multinational position of strength, seek to impose their structure model to the common firm and develop their own culture within it. They also seek to dominate the relationship and centralize all decisions.From a study of two alliances, one found in the hotel sector with a French multinational and the other found in the pharmaceutical sector with a US multinational, we demonstrate that these theoretical findings, are only partially confirmed within the studied alliances.This research is inserted into field work with a study of both qualitative and quantitative, on the Algerian territory, where no similar studies have been conducted, to our knowledge.We demonstrate that the multinational imposes its organizational model, but fails to fully develop its common culture within the alliance.We also demonstrate that multinationals dominate certain managerial decisions and share more with the local partner. And when the multinational is trying to dominate the whole, competitive retaliation may be considered by the ally and touch his interests.We also cleared, the characteristics of the structure and culture of international alliances studied in Algerian context.On the other hand, the study of international dyadic alliances Algerian context; seems to reveal the existence of differences in behavior of the alliance, depending on the status of "public" or "private" of the local parent.