Local, regional, or global? Geographic orientation and relative financial performance of emerging market multinational enterprises

European Management Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 344-355

  Banalieva, Elitsa R ^a   Santoro, Michael D ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging markets; Geographic orientations; Multinationals; Performance; Regional global strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349095149     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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