Foreign market entry strategies and post-entry growth: Acquisitions vs greenfield investments

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1046-1063

  Tan, Danchi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Greenfield investments; Interdependence; Managerial resources; Penrose theory; Post entry growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349128273     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2009.1     Document Type: Article

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