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Excerpt from Joint Ventures in the Information Technology Sector: An Assessment of Strategies and Effectiveness Theoretical Perspectives Research Question One: Effectiveness of Joint Ventures According to the strategic behavior perspective, joint ventures provide a set of benefits with a set of costs (harrigan 1985; Contractor and Lorange 1986; Porter and Fuller To the degree that benefits associated with joint ventures outweigh potential costs, joint ventures are expected to be effective for the participating firms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.