Playing football in a soccer field: Value chain structures, institutional modularity and success in foreign expansion

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 257-276

  Jacobides, Michael G ^a  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41449107069     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1393     Document Type: Article

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