The Impact of Home Country Institutional Effects on the Internationalization Strategy of Chinese Firms

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 25-48

  Voss, Hinrich ^a   Buckley, Peter J ^a   Cross, Adam R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese MNEs; Institutional environment; Internalization theory; Internationalization; Interview data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993046488     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X201000014     Document Type: Review

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