The japanese and local partner relationship on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and international joint ventures (IJVs) performance in Thailand industrial sectors

The trend of japanese investment inflow a is increasing in thailand as recipient country year after year. thailand’s economic sustainability could be enhanced by the introduction of japanese-thai sme ijv in the industrial sector. this investment from japan is using thailand as the base location for their offshore production,and at least 80 percent of their productivity is export oriented. despite the thai partner as the host country,the company could not enhance their firm's competitive advantage as much as they expect before engaging in ijv. this is caused by a large difference of the firm’s investment size in which one of them is dominated by the other. hence,no wonder 'why japanese and thai partners are lacking in dependency'. mo and rmo were identified as the success factors contributing to ijv operation.. particularly,rmo enables them to explore and push out partner synergy and finally cause them to transfer to knowledge from one to another. a total of 441 cases were distributed to japanese-thai sme ijvs general manager through survey method,and 145 cases were returned. the result of the study shows the linkage between mo,rmo and sme ijv performance. this will be discussed in more detail in this study. © 2015,statistical economic and social research and. all rights reserved.