Learning Before Making the Big Leap: Acquisition Strategies of Emerging Market Firms

Management International Review

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-481

  Elango, B ^a   Pattnaik, Chinmay ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Emerging market MNCs; Emerging markets; India; Internationalization; Springboard perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955166624     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-011-0085-0     Document Type: Article

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