Headquarters' scanning of the foreign subsidiary environment:: An empirical study

Journal of International Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-54

  Muralidharan, Raman ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Environmental scanning; Headquarters foreign subsidiary

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041992495     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1075-4253(99)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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