Is there a liability of localness? How emerging market firms respond to regulatory punctuations

Journal of International Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-251

  Perez Batres, Luis A ^a   Eden, Lorraine ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition strategies; Banking; Emerging market firms; International diversification; Liability of foreignness; Liability of localness; Mexico; Multinational enterprises; Punctuated equilibrium; Regulatory punctuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949083838     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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