Research notes and commentaries the performance implications of intra- and inter-regional geographic diversification

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1018-1030

  Qian, Gongming ^a   Khoury, Theodore A ^b   Peng, Mike W ^c   Qian, Zhengming ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geographic diversification; Geographic spread; MNE; Multinational enterprise strategy; Multinationality performance; Regionalization

Indexed keywords

FIRM PERFORMANCE; IS PERFORMANCE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SIGMOIDAL RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 77954522699     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.855     Document Type: Article

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