Born global or born regional Evidence from an exploratory study in the Costa Rican software industry

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1228-1238

  Lopez, Luis E ^a   Kundu, Sumit K ^b   Ciravegna, Luciano ^a,c  

^a The INCAE Business School   (Costa Rica)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship in emerging markets; Management; Multinational corporations (MNCs) and enterprises (MNEs); Regional strategy or strategies; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949163722     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2008.69     Document Type: Article

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