Internal equity financing and the performance of multinational subsidiaries in emerging economies

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 468-490

  Nguyen, Quyen T K ^a   Rugman, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

internal equity financing; internalization theory; pecking order theory; South East Asia ASEAN; subsidiary performance; subsidiary level financial management decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928574269     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.64     Document Type: Article

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