MNEs as border-crossing multi-location enterprises: The role of discontinuities in geographic space

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 413-426

  Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd ^a   Mudambi, Ram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

border effects; distance effects; multi location enterprise; spatial discontinuities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879343283     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.23     Document Type: Review

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