Internationalization motives: Sell more, buy better, upgrade and escape

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-35

  Cuervo Cazurra, Alvaro ^a   Narula, Rajneesh ^b   Annique Un, C ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Internationalization; Motives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927740517     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBR-02-2015-0009     Document Type: Article

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