Institutional Leverage Capability: Creating and Using Institutional Advantages for Internationalization

Global Strategy Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 50-68

  Landau, Christian ^a   Karna, Amit ^b   Richter, Ansgar ^c   Uhlenbruck, Klaus ^d  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Home country environment; Institutional advantages; Institutional leverage capability (ILC) internationalization; Location based advantages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959057814     PISSN: 20425791     EISSN: 20425805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gsj.1108     Document Type: Article

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