Is international business good for companies? The evolutionary or multi-stage theory of internationalization vs. the transaction cost perspective

Management International Review

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 453-475

  Contractor, Farok J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General theory; Multinationality performance relationship; Past empirical results

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347251942     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-007-0024-2     Document Type: Article

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