Dissipation of knowledge and the boundaries of the multinational enterprise

Review of World Economics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-26

  Gattai, Valeria ^a   Molteni, Corrado ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dissipation; FDI; Intangible assets; Internalization; Japan; Joint venture

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047218044     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-007-0096-x     Document Type: Article

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