The international expansion of firms from emerging markets: Toward a typology of Brazilian MNEs

Latin American Business Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 95-115

  da Silva, Jorge Ferreira ^a   da Rocha, Angela ^a   Carneiro, Jorge ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Emerging markets multinationals; Internationalization; Late movers; Multilatinas; Third world multinationals; Translatinas

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849087270     PISSN: 10978526     EISSN: 15286932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10978520903303638     Document Type: Article

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