Abstrak
Joint ventures as one of the many forms of strategic alliance are now ubiquitous phenomena in most Asian countries such as Indonesia and others. The trend to estabilished joint ventures with foreign firms has been growing in popularity since the onset of 1980s. In 2007, the value of realized foreign direct investment in Indonesia had reached USD 9,076.6 milliom which represented 842 projects (Investment Coordinating Board, Oct. 2007). However, particular data regarding the magnitude of investment in joint ventures are not available because foreign firect investments are not further specified into joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries. The development of joint ventures is more discernible if we turn to the international bussiness arena. Over the past few years more than 5000 joint ventures have been established and the largest world 100 joint ventures represent more than USD 350 billion in combined annual revenues (Bamford, Erns and Fubini, 2004)