The dark side of internationalisation: Dysfunctional behaviours in foreign subsidiaries

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-143

  Vida, Irena ^a   Obadia, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NEGOCIA   (France)

Author keywords

Foreign subsidiary; Integrated entry modes; International market failures; Opportunism; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149101459     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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