Transnational Joint Ventures between UK and EU Manufacturing Companies and the Structure of Competition

This paper analyses both the incidence and motivation for transnational joint ventures between UK and EU companies in relation to the structure of competition. It is based on a survey of 812 UK manufacturing PLCs and case studies in forty-six companies with a total of sixty-nine joint ventures. The...

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Published in:Journal of international business studies 1995-06, Vol.26 (2), p.239-254
Main Authors: Millington, Andrew I., Bayliss, Brian T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alliances
Business and Management
Business Strategy/Leadership
Business structures
Case studies
Collaboration
Competition
Competition policy
Economic competition
Economies of scale
Efficiency
Europe
European Union
High technology industries
Industrial efficiency
Industrial market
Industrial policy
International Business
International markets
Joint ventures
Management
Manufacturing
Market competition
Multinational corporations
Organization
Parent companies
Polls & surveys
Population
Private enterprises
Small and medium sized enterprises
Studies
Transnationalism
United Kingdom
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Summary:This paper analyses both the incidence and motivation for transnational joint ventures between UK and EU companies in relation to the structure of competition. It is based on a survey of 812 UK manufacturing PLCs and case studies in forty-six companies with a total of sixty-nine joint ventures. The results highlight the importance of transnational JVs in the EU and suggest that they are unlikely to have significantly reduced the level of competition in the Union. The motivations which underlie these ventures can be broken into two groups. Large firms undertake JVs in response to competitive pressures within an increasingly unified single market. Small and medium-sized firms undertake JVs in order to penetrate discrete national markets.
ISSN:0047-2506
1478-6990
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490173