Knowledge transfer considerations and the future of the internalization hypothesis

International Business Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-264

  Hashai, Niron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Global system view; Internalization; Internationalization; Knowledge transfer; Modeling; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749111250     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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