Mitigating liabilities of foreignness: Defensive versus offensive approaches

Journal of International Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 283-300

  Luo, Yadong ^a   Shenkar, Oded ^b   Nyaw, Mee Kau ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Contract; Liability of foreignness; Networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036389809     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1075-4253(02)00073-X     Document Type: Article

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