Internalization and experience: Japanese banks' international expansion, 1980-1998

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-248

  Qian, Lihong ^a   Delios, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Defensive expansion; Follow the client; Internalization theory; Japanese banks; Multinational banking

Indexed keywords

EID: 39649110392     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400317     Document Type: Article

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