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East-West Industrial Cooperation: The Swedish Case

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  • Bengt Högberg

    (Linköping Institute of Technology)

  • Clas Wahlbin

    (Linköping Institute of Technology)

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Although industrial cooperation is an important means for the East to acquire western technology, most of the Swedish companies interviewed are rather reluctant to engage in such cooperation. They often cooperate in order to protect a market or to promote exports of their products, and partners seldom strive towards a common goal. This increased the risk of problems during the implementation of the agreements; problems of quality, delivery failures from the East, and management and coordination are especially frequent; the latter 2 are strongly associated with unsuccessful results. Complicated agreements involving several partners have a tendency to fail. The differences between the 2 economic and political systems manifest themselves in management styles, freedom to act, and so on, and make it difficult to integrate operations. East-West industrial cooperation, therefore, seldom leads to an intensive integration where the partners specialize and supplement each other.© 1984 JIBS. Journal of International Business Studies (1984) 15, 63–79

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  • Bengt Högberg & Clas Wahlbin, 1984. "East-West Industrial Cooperation: The Swedish Case," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 15(1), pages 63-79, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:15:y:1984:i:1:p:63-79
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