Home-region orientation in international expansion strategies

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 89-116

  Banalieva, Elitsa R ^a   Dhanaraj, Charles ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

geographic scope; home region orientation; institutional diversity; internalization theory; regionalization debate; technological advantage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874916180     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2012.33     Document Type: Article

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