Internationalization strategy, firm resources and the survival of SMEs in the export market

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 821-841

  Sui, Sui ^a   Baum, Matthias ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

duration models; exports; global strategy; internationalization; secondary data source

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906890925     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.11     Document Type: Article

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