… venture strategy that were developed in Harrigan (1985a: Chapter 5 ) … These other problems
have been explored elsewhere (see Harrigan, … Harrigan, KR ‘The effect of exit barriers upon …

Management development guide on the management of joint ventures in the USA-discusses
questions of ownership, contract, productivity, competition, technology transfer, etc; reviews …

Proposing a new look at vertical integration and the dimensions that comprise it, this study
develops a framework for predicting when firms use make-or-buy decisions. The strategic …

A multisite, multisource research methodology is suggested for students of corporate strategy
in order to attain generalizability and statistical significance in reporting findings while not …

… ease with which assets could be transformed for other uses), extent of service offerings,
degrees of financial leverage, differences in the use of backward or forward integration (Harrigan…

… Full ownership risks the greatest proportion of equity, but many firms believe it is easier to
manage than contractual or quasi-integrated relationships and prefer it over them (Harrigan, …

… In this book, Kathryn Harrigan provides a host of insights for … can rethink their firms, Professor
Harrigan has focused on those … Professor Harrigan's conceptual frameworks bring order to …

… , competitive posture, corporate strategy needs, and other attributes that comprise a
contingency theory suggested and validated elsewhere (Harrigan, 1985a). … 536 KRHarrigan …

… (In fact, as Harrigan, 1985b, notes, joint venture agreements tend to focus instead upon …
stamped in the minds of managers who eschew co-operative strategies (Harrigan, 1985a). …

As early as 1948, when researchers discovered the ‘transistor effect’, it was evident that
vacuum tubes in television sets had become technologically obsolete. Within a few years, …