Regional and Global Alliance Network Structures of Triad Multinational Enterprises

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-24

  Banalieva, Elitsa R ^a   Athanassiou, Nicholas ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance networks; Regional global strategies; Social networks theory; Structure of international

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993043371     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X201000001     Document Type: Review

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