A joint venture is an agreement by two or more people or companies to accomplish a specific business goal together. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

While joint costs and common costs may, on the surface, appear very similar, they have a very different meaning in business accounting. Joint costs arise when the same resource results in two or more ...

Joint employment has kept labor and employment lawyers busy in recent years. The concept of joint employment means that an employee can be simultaneously, or “jointly”, employed by two or more ...

A joint venture is something that happens when two or more businesses partner with each other to pool their resources and work together toward a common aim. It could be a joint advertising campaign, a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s estimated at least 40 percent, and up to 70 percent, of joint ventures fail. Commit just one of the “seven deadly sins of joint ...

The term “joint” has been well established in the U.S. military lexicon for many decades. While the word’s meaning may remain a constant, its significance for the American military is changing. The ...