Do indigenous firms incur a liability of localness when operating in their home market? The case of China

Journal of World Business

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 478-489

  Jiang, Fuming ^a   Stening, Bruce W ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Foreign firms; Institutions; Liability of localness; Local firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883555002     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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