Does the regional nature of multinationals affect the multinationality and performance relationship?

International Business Review

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 479-488

  Rugman, Alan M ^a   Oh, Chang Hoon ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compustat; Internalization; Internationalization; Multinationality and performance; Regional assets; Regional multinationals; Regional sales; S curve; Tobin's Q

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954814392     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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