Organizational responses to regional integration among mnes in Latin America

Management International Review

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-267

  de la Torre, José R ^a   Esperança, José Paulo ^b   Martínez, Jon I ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Globalization and market integration; Latin america; Multinational corporations; Regional strategies; Subsidiary networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957996344     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-011-0073-4     Document Type: Article

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