Toward experimental international business unraveling fundamental causal linkages

Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 530-544

  Van Witteloostuijn, Arjen ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causality; Experiments; International Business; Laboratory research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942096503     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CCM-06-2015-0075     Document Type: Article

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