The home-region orientation of Spanish exporting firms

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-228

  Almodóvar, Paloma ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advertising intensity; Corporate strategy; Foreign ownership; Liability of foreignness; Manufacturing industries; New multinationals; Regionalization; Research intensity; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992957635     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/15253831111172649     Document Type: Article

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