Geographic scope and multinational enterprise performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1289-1306

  Goerzen, Anthony ^a   Beamish, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geographic scope; Internalization theory; Multinational enterprise

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; FIRM PERFORMANCE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE; POSITIVE INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORY LENS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 4644239424     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.357     Document Type: Article

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