Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 427-450

  Goerzen, Anthony ^a   Asmussen, Christian Geisler ^b   Nielsen, Bo Bernhard ^b,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alliances and joint ventures; foreign direct investment; global cities; internationalization; liability of foreignness; location strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879378146     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.11     Document Type: Article

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