Internationalization, resource allocation and firm performance

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1103-1110

  Chen, Homin ^a   Hsu, Chia Wen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Internationalization; Resource allocation; Value appropriation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956871992     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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