Foreign ownership and long-term survival

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-219

  Kronborg, Dorte ^a   Thomsen, Steen ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Foreignness; Ownership; Subsidiaries; Survival

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES; FOREIGNNESS; OWNERSHIP; SUBSIDIARIES; SURVIVAL;

EID: 60349089371     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.732     Document Type: Article

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