International Joint Ventures: Creating Value Through Successful Knowledge Management

Knowledge management is the conscious and active management of creating, disseminating, evolving and applying knowledge to strategic ends. In this paper, we examine knowledge management in the context of international joint ventures (IJVs), activities that cut across organizational and national boundaries, to show how to manage the behavioral and contextual considerations to create value for the aprent companies. A case based methodology was used to conduct 20 in-depth interviews and collect archival data from eight IJVs within the NAFTA partnership of Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico. The findings, achieved and unsuccessful cases. These descriptors are: mindset, controls, strategic integration, training and development, resource contribitions and integration, and relationship development.