Do country-level institutional frameworks and interfirm governance arrangements substitute or complement in international business relationships

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 477-497

  Abdi, Majid ^a   Aulakh, Preet S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cultural distance; econometrics; governance; institutional contex; institutional environment; institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862521809     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2012.11     Document Type: Article

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