Foreign subsidiaries' learning from local environments: An empirical test

Management International Review

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-102

  Mu, Shaohua ^a   Gnyawali, Devi R ^b   Hatfield, Donald E ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate entrepreneurial culture; Knowledge flows; Local embeddedness; Organizational learning; Subsidiary innovation; Top management teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847646231     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-007-0005-5     Document Type: Article

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