How do we capture "Global specialization" when measuring firms' degree of globalization?

Management International Review

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 791-813

  Asmussen, Christian Geisler ^a   Pedersen, Torben ^a   Petersen, Bent ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Globalization; Internationalization; Metrics; Multinational corporations; Specialization; Value chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149004287     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-007-0053-x     Document Type: Article

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