Internationalisation and firm performance: State of empirical research efforts and need for improved approaches

European Journal of International Management

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 204-224

  Oesterle, Michael Jörg ^a   Richta, Hannah Noriko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b not available   (Germany)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Internationalisation; Internationalisationperformance relationship; IP relationship; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875900651     PISSN: 17516757     EISSN: 17516765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2013.052834     Document Type: Article

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