Explaining born globals: an organisational learning perspective on the internationalisation process

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-41

  Bengtsson, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

born global; internationalisation process; knowledge acquisition; organisational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745466606     PISSN: 14793059     EISSN: 14793067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJGSB.2004.005616     Document Type: Article

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