Explaining China's outward FDI: An institutional perspective

The Rise of Transnational Corporations from Emerging Markets: Threat or Opportunity?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-157

  Buckley, Peter J ^a,b,c   Clegg, Jeremy L ^a   Cross, Adam R ^a,d   Voss, Hinrich ^a,e   Rhodes, Mark ^f   Zheng, Ping ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e White Rose East Asia Centre   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^g DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

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