Cultural distance and the choice between wholly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2252-2261

  López Duarte, Cristina ^a   Vidal Suárez, Marta M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Foreign direct investment; GLOBE project; Hofstede; Joint venture; Political risk; Schwartz; Wholly owned subsidiary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880944875     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.02.017     Document Type: Article

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