对合资经营进行分析的主要困难,在于缺乏一个能把合资企业同其它一些企业之间的契约性协作加以区别的明确的定义。虽然,人们几乎把所有的企业之间的协议或活动均视为合资经营,因为这种双边活动对参加者的经济利益都直接有关。但这种解释过于笼统,它对分析合资经营这一概念毫无意义。然而,如果我们着眼于使合资经营不同于反托拉斯的原因的因素,那就能得出 The main difficulty in the analysis of joint ventures lies in the lack of a clear definition that distinguishes contractual collaboration between joint ventures and other companies. Although, people almost treat all the agreements or activities between enterprises as joint ventures, because such bilateral activities are directly related to the participants’ economic interests. However, this interpretation is too general and it makes no sense in analyzing the concept of joint ventures. However, if we look at factors that make joint ventures different from the reasons for antitrust, then we can