The interactive effect of time and host country location on Chinese MNCs' performance: An empirical investigation

Journal of World Business

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 331-342

  Yuan, Lin ^a   Pangarkar, Nitin ^b   Wu, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Internalization; Internationalization; Location choice; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953282356     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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