Climate change mitigation and internationalization: The competitiveness of multinational corporations

Thunderbird International Business Review

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 673-688

  Chakrabarty, Subrata ^a   Wang, Liang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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EID: 84886436581     PISSN: 10964762     EISSN: 15206874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tie.21583     Document Type: Article

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