Fifty Years of International Business Theory and Beyond

Management International Review

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 755-786

  Rugman, Alan M ^a   Verbeke, Alain ^b   Nguyen, Quyen T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compounded distance; Country specific advantages (CSAs); Firm specific advantages (FSAs); Multinational enterprises (MNEs); Network; Regions; Resource recombination barriers; Subsidiary; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864487516     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-011-0102-3     Document Type: Article

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