Rationale of internationalization of China's national oil companies: seeking natural resources, strategic assets or sectoral specialization?

Asia Pacific Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-95

  Lai, Hongyi ^a   O'Hara, Sarah ^a   Wysoczanska, Karolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assets seeking; business; China; energy firms; internationalization; resources seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926102630     PISSN: 13602381     EISSN: 1743792X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2014.939896     Document Type: Article

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