Assessing Russian consumers' imported versus domestic product bias

Thunderbird International Business Review

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 687-704

  Thelen, Shawn ^a   Ford, John B ^b   Honeycutt Jr , Earl D ^c  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748432830     PISSN: 10964762     EISSN: 15206874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tie.20116     Document Type: Article

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