Home country institutions and the internationalization of state owned enterprises: A cross-country analysis

Journal of World Business

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 294-307

  Estrin, Saul ^a   Meyer, Klaus E ^b   Nielsen, Bo B ^c,d   Nielsen, Sabina ^c,d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Home country institutions; Internationalization; Matched sample; State owned enterprises; Tobit regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953225343     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2015.11.002     Document Type: Article

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