Region effects in the internationalization-performance relationship in Chinese firms

Journal of World Business

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-80

  Chen, Stephen ^a   Tan, Hao ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel model; Foreign sales; Interregional sales; Intraregional sales; Tobin's Q

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755161975     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.10.022     Document Type: Article

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