The behaviour of international firms in socio-political environments in the European Union

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 263-275

  Hadjikhani, Amjad ^a   Ghauri, Pervez N ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Internationalisation; MNEs vs. SMEs; Networking; Political environment; The European Union and firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037946676     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(99)00106-X     Document Type: Article

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