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A joint venture is a new enterprise owned by two or more participants. It represents a combination of subsets of assets contributed by two (or more) business entities for a specific business purpose and a limited duration. It is essentially a medium to long-term contract which is specific and flexible. Though, the joint venture represents a newly created business enterprise, its participants continue to exist as separate firms. A joint venture can be organized as a partnership firm, a corporation or any other form of business organisation which the participating firms choose to select.
Other examples are Toyota-Kirloskar,Kinetic-Honda,Hero Honda,Tata Docomo,Virgin-Tata