Foreign market entry as network entry: A relational-structuration perspective on internationalization in television content production

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Sydow, Jörg ^a   Windeler, Arnold ^b   Wirth, Carsten ^c   Staber, Udo ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Fachhochschule Kempten Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Foreign market entry; Network entry; Organizational field; Structuration theory; Television industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549083770     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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