Liabilities of regional foreignness and the use of firm-level versus country-level data: A response to Dunning et al. (2007)

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 200-205

  Rugman, Alan M ^a   Verbeke, Alain ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Home region bound firm specific advantages; Liability of regional foreignness; Methodology; Regional strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847279338     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400242     Document Type: Review

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