Managing the internalisation process

Management International Review

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-154

  Petersen, Bent ^a   Welch, L ^b   Benito, GabrielR G ^c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Internalisation; Management; Multinational enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955085732     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-010-0031-6     Document Type: Article

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