Outward foreign direct investment by emerging market firms: A resource dependence logic

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1343-1363

  Xia, Jun ^a   Ma, Xufei ^b   Lu, Jane W ^c,d   Yiu, Daphne W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

emerging market firm; interdependence; outward foreign direct investment; resource dependence theory; state ownership

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INDUSTRY;

EMERGING MARKET FIRMS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS; INTERDEPENDENCE; RESOURCE DEPENDENCES; STATE OWNERSHIP;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84904498749     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2157     Document Type: Article

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