Immediate responses to financial crises: A focus on US MNE subsidiaries

International Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 202-215

  Dikova, Desislava ^a   Smeets, Roger ^b   Garretsen, Harry ^c   Van Ees, Hans ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Financial crises; Market switching; Real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870242777     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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