Peer conformity, attention, and heterogeneous implementation of practices in MNEs

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 917-937

  Durand, Rodolphe ^a   Jacqueminet, Anne ^b  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

attention; corporate social responsibility; institutional theory; multinational corporations (MNCs) and enterprises (MNEs); practice implementation; simultaneous equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942843480     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2015.21     Document Type: Article

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