Explaining Imports and Exports: A Focus on Non-Maquiladora Mexican Firms

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 25-40

  Thomas, Douglas E ^a   Grosse, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Standard Bank of South Africa ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Expansion; Exports; Imports; International market; Internationalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992989137     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200500013     Document Type: Review

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