When do foreign subsidiaries outperform local firms?

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 853-860

  Chang, Sea Jin ^a   Chung, Jaiho ^b   Jungbien Moon, Jon ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; cross border mergers and acquisitions (M As); difference in differences; endogeneity; propensity score matching; subsidiary performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886880508     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.35     Document Type: Article

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