The home country cultural determinants of firms' foreign market entry timing strategies

Long Range Planning

Volumn 46, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 387-410

  Stevens, Charles E ^a   Dykes, Bernadine J ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ATTRIBUTE; CULTURAL DETERMINANTS; ENTRY TIMING; FOREIGN MARKET ENTRIES; HOST COUNTRIES; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE;

COMMERCE; RISK PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INDUSTRY;

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MARKET CONDITIONS; POLITICAL INTEGRATION;

EID: 84883448887     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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