Why and how motives (Still) matter

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-24

  Benito, Gabriel R G ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

FDI; Internalization theory; Internationalization of the firm; Internationalization process; Motives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927712195     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBR-02-2015-0005     Document Type: Article

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