The Expansion of Emerging Economy Firms into Advanced Markets: The Influence of Intentional Path-Breaking Change

Global Strategy Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 75-103

  Kalasin, Kiattichai ^a   Dussauge, Pierre ^b   Rivera Santos, Miguel ^c,d  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

^c EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^d BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced markets; Emerging economy MNEs; International expansion; Managerial intentionality; Multilevel analysis; Path breaking change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994587438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20425805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-5805.2014.1076.x     Document Type: Article

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