Capturing institutional home country conditions for exporting SMEs

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1303-1310

  Mogos Descotes, Raluca ^a   Walliser, Björn ^b,c   Holzmüller, Hartmut ^d   Guo, Xiaoling ^e  

^a ESSCA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c ICN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cross national research; Exporting SMEs; Institutional profile; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052909663     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.12.023     Document Type: Article

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