Internalisation thinking: From the multinational enterprise to the global factory

International Business Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 224-235

  Buckley, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Externalisation; Global factory; Internalisation theory; Multinational enterprise; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749105021     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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