Export stimuli revisited: The influence of the characteristics of managerial decision makers on international behaviour

International Small Business Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 648-670

  Acedo, Francisco J ^a   Galán, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

cognition; export stimuli; internationalization; theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955229011     PISSN: 02662426     EISSN: 17412870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266242610375771     Document Type: Article

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