Overcoming distrust: How state-owned enterprises adapt their foreign entries to institutional pressures abroad

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1005-1028

  Meyer, Klaus E ^a   Ding, Yuan ^a   Li, Jing ^b   Zhang, Hua ^a  

^a CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese multinationals; control mode; establishment mode; foreign market entry; institutional theory; state owned enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908142944     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.15     Document Type: Article

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