SMEs' internationalisation patterns: Descriptives, dynamics and determinants

International Marketing Review

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 466-495

  Olejnik, Edith ^a   Swoboda, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Born global; Born again global; International business; International patterns; Latent class analysis; Small to medium sized enterprises; Traditional SME

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865764220     PISSN: 02651335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02651331211260340     Document Type: Article

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