Internationalization and alliance formation: Evidence from Turkish SMEs

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-361

  Ulubaşoǧlu, Mehmet Ali ^a   Akdiş, Muhammet ^b   Kök, Bayrak Sabahat ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alliances; Foreign capital; Internationalization; SMEs; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349097436     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242608094029     Document Type: Article

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