Bounded entrepreneurship and internationalisation of indigenous Chinese private-owned firms

International Business Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 488-508

  Liu, Xiaming ^a   Xiao, Wen ^b   Huang, Xianhai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bounded entrepreneurship; Chinese private owned firms; Internationalisation processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049085038     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2008.02.014     Document Type: Article

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