Does it matter where countries are? Proximity to knowledge, markets and resources, and MNE location choices

Management Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1252-1265

  Nachum, Lilach ^a   Zaheer, Srilata ^b   Gross, Shulamith ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Countries' proximity to the world; Distance; Markets and resources; Multinational enterprise location choice; Proximity to knowledge; Sandwich estimators

Indexed keywords

COUNTRIES' PROXIMITY TO THE WORLD; DISTANCE; MARKETS AND RESOURCES; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE LOCATION CHOICE; PROXIMITY TO KNOWLEDGE; SANDWICH ESTIMATORS;

MARKETING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

LOCATION;

EID: 61849114243     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0865     Document Type: Article

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