When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Multinational Corporation

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 145-181

  Perkins, Susan E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Institutional experience; learning curves; learning penalties; organizational learning; regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893861267     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839214523603     Document Type: Article

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