Objectives Among the treatment alternatives for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) in Norway, only bracing and surgery are mentioned as generally accepted forms of treatment. There exists a lot of controversy on this issue; therefore a descriptive research is used to highlight the different aspects …

A great deal of research has been undertaken to identify the factors affecting the success, failure, performance and stability of international equity joint ventures (EJVs) (see, for example, Beamish and Killing, 1996 for a review). Most of these studies, however, are static in nature. Although some …