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Farok J. Contractor

Publications with PhD Students and Alumni:

Negotiating alliance contracts: Strategy and behavioral effects of alternative compensation arrangements,International Business Review Volume: 9, Issue: 3, June, 2000, Contractor, Farok J.; Ra, Wonchan pp. 271-29;

Dissertations Supervised:

Name: Woodley, James
Graduation Date: 2002/October
Thesis Title: Control Over Inputs in International Strategic Alliances: The Case of the U.S. Packaged Software Industry

Name: Kim, Changsu
Graduation Date: 2002/January
Thesis Title: The Co-Evolution of Alliance and Technology Networks: Alliances and Interfirm Learning in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry.

Name: Pore, Anand
Graduation Date: 2010/January
Thesis Title: Determinants of the Mode of Offshoring of Services by Large US Corporations: Role of Service Characteristics, Firm's Capabilities, Strategic Motives, and Concerns.

Name: Ra, Wonchan
Graduation Date: 1999/ May
Thesis Title: Compensation Structure and Negotiations In International Strategic Alliances.

Name: Thakur, Pooja
Graduation Date: 2010/ May
Thesis Title: The Offshoring and Outsourcing of Core Corporate Activities: The global relocation of pharmaceutical industry clinical trials.

Dissertation Proposals of Current PhD Students:

Name: Huiping Li
Proposal Defended: 2004/November
Proposal Title: Technological Capability Accumulation in International Joint Venture in China

Dissertation Proposal Abstract: Taking the perspectives of competence-based view of the firm and of organizational learning, this study examines the technological capability building in the international joint ventures (IJVs) in China.  The study focus on whether IJVs in China have built local technological capabilities through acquiring and then using the international resources and knowledge to which they can gain access, and if so, the level of the technological capabilities that they have been able to develop as a result.  The research also examines the mechanisms of the technological capability building process by studying the interaction between the Chinese joint venture and the JV-partner’s (parent company) JV-peer subsidiaries.  Through looking at such interactions we can also further explore the strategy and structure that IJVs pursue to build technological capabilities, and the determinants of the rate at which they are able to build such technological capabilities.