?Joint venture? cooperation model: A research on problems and critical success factors

The developments concerning information and communication technology have accelerated the globalization process. The effects of this process have been seen in many fields especially in social, political and cultural fields. The globalization process has caused important changes in economical, commercial and financial fields and it has also changed the conditions of competition. The changing conditions of competition have affected the organizational structure of the establishments and their way of working. As the conditions of competition is getting more and more aggressive, it makes things difficult for the establishments in order to remain standing and make a profit. The establishments that are eager to be powerful in their own markets and/or in other markets have decided to do strategical cooperation with other establishments by doing research and development, production, marketing, investment and finance together.In this context, the strategic cooperation models have been examined in this thesis. The studies have been carried out in order to find what the critical success factors of joint venture model are and the reasons of cooperation. For this purpose, the surveys have been applied to the joint venture companies in the first 500 company list of the İstanbul Chamber of Commerce (the list is developed according to the companies ?2007 Net Sales?).