Efficiency-driven, comparative institutional analysis in international business

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 188-199

  Hillemann, Jenny ^a   Verbeke, Alain ^a,b,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Internalization theory; Multinational enterprise; Resource bundling; Societal failures; Strategic governance choices; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941350360     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBR-06-2015-0023     Document Type: Article

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