Strategic agility in MNEs: Managing tensions to capture opportunities across emerging and established markets

California Management Review

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 13-38

  Fourné, Sebastian P L ^a   Jansen, Justin J P ^a   Mom, Tom J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emerging markets; Multinational corporations; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901312861     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2014.56.3.13     Document Type: Article

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