Analyzing modes of foreign entry: Greenfield investment versus acquisition

Review of International Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-111

  Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a International Financial Markets Department   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MARKET SYSTEM; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PRICE DYNAMICS; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 33846839520     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: 14679396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2006.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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