A note on strategic renewal and corporate venturing in the subsidiaries of multinational enterprises

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 585-600

  Verbeke, Alain ^a,b   Chrisman, James J ^c,d   Yuan, Wenlong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 34447500139     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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