Dyer & Singh 1998 “the relational view: coopeative strategy …’ Academy of Management Review, 23,4 pp660-679. AND Beamish & Lupton 2009, ‘Managing Joint Ventures’ Academy of Management Perspectives, May, pp 75-94

This will be the literature review chapter for my phd thesis in strategic management. The unit of analysis will be an international equity joint venture case study. The lit review should cover the relational theory as outlined by Dyer &Singh 1998 but should be critical applying the research of Beamish&Lupton 2009. The four categories defined by Dyer&Singh1998 :Relation Specific Assets, Knowledge Sharing Routines, Complementary Resources and Capabilities, and Effective Governance should be researched and discussed in depth according to the most recent and classic articles in those 4 categories (determinants). Also the 5 of 6 categories of Beamish&Lupton 2009 (Performance, Knowledge Management, Governance, Managing Cultural Differences, and Valuing the JV )should be compared and discussed in an overlapping way with Dyer&Singh1998 and any others found. Click here to get more on this essay….. The 6 category of Internationalization should not be discussed as my case will not include the Selecting A Partner stage of Beamishi&Lupton 2009’s schema. ,Give a strong categorization of the determinants of success for international equity joint ventures in order to use as the guidance for the data collection during the case study which will be done lat this year. There is some debate about putting Relational View together with Resource Based View and my readings indicate it should be so go with that. Also Dyer&Sing1998 are relying on data from Supply chain management so a bridge should be made to equity joint ventures hence the Beamish&Lupton 2009 article. Also interesting is Dovev Lavie, Kathleen Eisenhardt and Frederic Prevot. Prevot is French and it is not necessary to use his French work but some citation of him is necessary and Dovev and Eisenhardt are critical.