A missing operationalization: Entrepreneurial competencies in multinational enterprise subsidiaries

Long Range Planning

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 64-75

  Dimitratos, Pavlos ^a   Liouka, Ioanna ^b   Young, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Climate change and sustainability and professor in sustainability governance at International University in Geneva   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCE;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INNOVATIVENESS; INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PROACTIVENESS; RISK TAKING;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

AUTONOMY; ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; RESEARCH; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH WORK; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84896491182     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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