Problematizing the internationalization decision: Terrorism-induced risk

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 809-823

  Liesch, Peter ^a   Steen, John ^a   Knight, Gary ^b   Czinkota, Michael R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Risk management; Terrorism; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745095636     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610673350     Document Type: Article

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