Inside the regional multinationals: A new value chain perspective on subsidiary capabilities

International Business Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 785-793

  Verbeke, Alain ^a   Kano, Liena ^a   Yuan, Wenlong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expansion and growth; Internalization theory; Learning effect; Regional distance; Regional effect; Regional multinational; Regional strategy; Subsidiary capabilities; Subsidiary development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971378840     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.01.019     Document Type: Article

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