Firm heterogeneity and location choice of Chinese Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)

Journal of World Business

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-72

  Duanmu, Jing Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese MNEs; Conditional logistic regression; Firm heterogeneity; Location choice; Nested logistic regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755162017     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.10.021     Document Type: Article

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