Institutional distance and the internationalization process: The case of mobile operators

Journal of International Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-82

  Pogrebnyakov, Nicolai ^a   Maitland, Carleen F ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign market entry; Institutional distance; Internationalization; Mobile operators; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951678321     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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