Finding a Home away from Home: Effects of Immigrants on Firms' Foreign Location Choice and Performance

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-108

  Hernandez, Exequiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

foreign expansion; immigrants; knowledge spillover; knowledge transfer; learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893820521     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839214523428     Document Type: Article

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