Successor characteristics, organisational slack, and change in the degree of firm internationalisation

International Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-101

  Lin, Wen Ting ^a   Liu, Yunshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Degree of internationalisation; Organisational slack; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855236039     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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