Location, Competitiveness, and the Multinational Enterprise

The Oxford Handbook of International Business (2 ed.)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rugman, Alan M ^a,b   Verbeke, Alain ^c,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Country specific advantages; International business; International economics literature; Multinational enterprises; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923632746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234257.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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