The institutional origins of dynamic capabilities in multinational enterprises

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1225-1246

  Dunning, John H ^a   Lundan, Sarianna M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; FIRM OWNERSHIP; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 77951862537     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq029     Document Type: Article

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