Firms' degree of born-globalness, international entrepreneurial orientation and export performance

Journal of World Business

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-267

  Kuivalainen, Olli ^a   Sundqvist, Sanna ^a   Servais, Per ^b  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Born globals; Degree of internationalization; Entrepreneurial orientation; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447287834     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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