Internationalization trajectories - A cross-country comparison: Are large Chinese and Indian companies different?

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-247

  Fortanier, Fabienne ^a   van Tulder, Rob ^b  

^a Business School   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIRM SIZE; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; MARKET SYSTEM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 64749088305     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtp003     Document Type: Article

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