Performance of foreign direct investment from Singapore

International Business Review

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 601-624

  Pangarkar, Nitin ^a   Lim, Hendry ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Oraxio   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; FDI performance; Host government attitudes; Mode of entry; Singapore multinationals; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041363307     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-5931(03)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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