Internalization theory, entrepreneurship and international new ventures

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 246-269

  Verbeke, Alain ^a   Amin Zargarzadeh, M ^a   Osiyevskyy, Oleksiy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Born globals; Entrepreneurship; Firm specific advantages; Internalization theory; International new ventures; Owner characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914168916     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBR-06-2014-0023     Document Type: Article

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