Locational determinants of outward foreign direct Investment: An analysis of Chinese and Indian greenfield investments

Transnational Corporations

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-34

  De Beule, Filip ^a   Van Den Bulcke, Daniel ^b  

^a Lessius University College   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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