Emerging Markets as Learning Laboratories: Learning Behaviors of Local Firms and Foreign Entrants in Different Institutional Contexts

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-380

  Hitt, Michael A ^a   Worthington IV, William J ^a   Li, Haiyang ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84992999479     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2005.0019a.x     Document Type: Article

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