Testing the Link Between Multinationality and the Return on Foreign Assets

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 123-142

  Kudina, Alina ^a   Rugman, Alan M ^b   Yip, George S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multinational enterprise (MNE); Multinationality; Return on foreign assets (ROFA); Return on total assets (ROTA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993084379     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200900020     Document Type: Review

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