Internationalization and Performance: Traditional Measures and Their Decomposition

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 23-50

  Hsu, Chin Chun ^a   Boggs, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internationalization; Performance; Performance measures; Sales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993058061     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200300015     Document Type: Review

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