Liability of foreignness as a barrier to knowledge spillovers: Lost in translation?

Journal of International Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 460-474

  Schmidt, Tobias ^a   Sofka, Wolfgang ^b,c,d  

^a DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knowledge spillover; Legitimacy; Liability of foreignness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350616201     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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