Dynamics of the internationalisation of European retailing: From a national to a European perspective

Strategic Management - New Rules for Old Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 159-200

  Swoboda, Bernhard ^a   Schwarz, Sandra ^a  

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