Overcoming the dual liability of foreignness and privateness in international corporate citizenship partnerships

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 290-311

  Bhanji, Zahra ^a   Oxley, Joanne E ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

business and society business in society; institutional environment; or transaction cost analysis; theories; transaction cost economics; transaction cost theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877991899     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.8     Document Type: Article

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