Competence-building in foreign subsidiaries: The case of new EU member states

Journal for East European Management Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 286-314

  Filippov, Sergey ^a   Duysters, Geert ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Competences; Multinational; Subsidiaries; Subsidiary evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355161239     PISSN: 09496181     EISSN: 18620019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5771/0949-6181-2011-4-286     Document Type: Article

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