What drives economic growth? The case of cross-border M and A and greenfield FDI activities

Kyklos

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 316-330

  Wang, Miao ^a   Sunny Wong, M C ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; MERGER; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 65449151334     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2009.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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