Can strong home country institutions foster the internationalization of MNEs?

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 352-375

  He, Xiaoming ^a   Cui, Lin ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Country differences; Governance quality; International business; Internationalization; Multinational companies; Multinational enterprises; Regulatory institutions at home

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897086578     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/15253831211286264     Document Type: Article

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