Risk and Uncertainty in Internationalisation and International Entrepreneurship Studies: Review and Conceptual Development

Management International Review

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 851-873

  Liesch, Peter W ^a   Welch, Lawrence S ^b   Buckley, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coevolution; International entrepreneurship; Internationalisation; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864471050     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-011-0107-y     Document Type: Article

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