MNE entrepreneurial capabilities at intermediate levels: The roles of external embeddedness and heterogeneous environments

Long Range Planning

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 76-86

  Hoenen, Anne K ^a   Nell, Phillip C ^b   Ambos, Björn ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b Department of Strategic Management and Globalization Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCE;

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBEDDEDNESS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENTREPRENEUR; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; MARKET CONDITIONS;

EID: 84896474203     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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