Foreign country priorities in the internationalization process: A measure and an exploratory test on British firms

International Business Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 285-303

  Clark, Timothy ^a   Pugh, Derek S ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; International priority; Internationalization; Psychic distance; Uppsala

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042406568     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-5931(01)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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