Forty years of internalisation theory and the multinational enterprise

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 227-245

  Buckley, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; Internalisation theory; Market imperfection; Multinational enterprise; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915782228     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBR-06-2014-0022     Document Type: Article

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