Cost, value and foreign market entry mode: The transaction and the firm

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-61

  Madhok, Anoop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm capabilities; Foreign market entry; Global strategy; Multinational firms; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001956947     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199701)18:1<39::aid-smj841>3.0.co;2-j     Document Type: Article

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