The transfer of organizational specificities of Japanese firms into Japanese-American joint ventures established in the United States.

Summary For several years, the literature on strategic management of firms has focused on alliances and on the variables that contribute to the performance of Japanese firms. The research presented in this thesis aims to provide some answers on the transferability of the organizational specificities of Japanese firms, in the context of Japanese-American joint ventures established in the United States. Indeed, joint ventures represent a hybrid form of organization, a privileged place of interaction between two different management modes. They thus appear to be the most suitable place to host this type of transfer. We propose a study of three key concepts and their interactions (the organizational specificities of Japanese firms, the notion of transferability and Japanese-American joint-ventures in the United States), using theoretical approaches and a questionnaire survey. Based on the statistical processing of the survey, we deduce a reading grid called "hybrid model of adoption-creation", which allows us to interpret the different types of transfers and their nature.