Retailers' foreign market entry decisions: An institutional perspective

International Business Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 613-629

  Huang, Ying ^a   Sternquist, Brenda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entry location; Entry mode; Entry timing; Foreign market entry; Institutional theory; International expansion; Internationalization; Retailer

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748837225     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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