Network Development and Firm Performance: A Field Study of Internationalizing Japanese Firms

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 41-61

  lu, Jane W ^a   Beamish, Paul W ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alliance strategy; Internationalisation; Multinational corporations; Subsidiaries; Subsidiary networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993078155     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200400015     Document Type: Review

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