Transaction cost-enhanced entry mode choices and firm performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1239-1248

  Brouthers, Keith D ^a   Brouthers, Lance Eliot ^b   Werner, Steve ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Entry mode; Performance; Transaction cost

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PLANT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

TRANSACTION COST (TC) THEORY;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 0346271870     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.362     Document Type: Article

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