The role of trust between partners in the process of knowledge acquisition within interational joint ventures

Abstract EN

In front of the environment disturbances in which firms exercise, and in order to ensure their continuity and competitiveness, managers must reorient their interest towards organizational learning through the accumulation of knowledge.

Through the study of the process of knowledge acquisition within International Joint Ventures from partners, we try, through an exploratory approach, to discern the determinants that may influence this process.

We focus, in particular, on trust between partners that may have a significant effect on the process of knowledge acquisition and the above determinants.

This research produces a set of propositions likely to be verified in future explanatory research