Fast and slow resource commitment to foreign markets: What causes the difference?

Journal of International Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 73-91

  Petersen, Bent ^a   Pedersen, Torben ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Foreign market entry; Globalization; Internationalization; Pace of resource commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041491472     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1075-4253(99)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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