Transnational activities of immigrant-owned firms and their performances in the USA

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 345-359

  Wang, Qingfang ^a   Liu, Cathy Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Internationalization; Transnational

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939875248     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9595-z     Document Type: Article

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