The benefits of geographic sales diversification: How exporting facilitates capital investment

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1046-1060

  Myles Shaver, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

capital investment; corporate strategy; diversification; exporting; international strategy

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL INVESTMENT; CORPORATE STRATEGIES; DIVERSIFICATION; EXPORTING; INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 79953176910     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.924     Document Type: Article

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