Internationalization and financial performance in the global forest industry

International Forestry Review

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-105

  Zhang, Y ^a   Toppinen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

corporate performance; degree of internationalization; Foreign direct investment (FDI); forest industry

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; FORESTRY; GLOBALIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955104261     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/ifor.13.1.96     Document Type: Article

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