Catch-up strategies in the Indian auto components industry: Domestic firms responses to market liberalization

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-395

  Kumaraswamy, Arun ^a   Mudambi, Ram ^a   Saranga, Haritha ^b   Tripathy, Arindam ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

^c University of Washington Tacoma   (United States)

Author keywords

auto components industry; catch up; India; internalization theory; liberalization; upgrading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860816900     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2012.4     Document Type: Article

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