Family involvement and firms' establishment mode choice in foreign markets

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 929-950

  Boellis, Andrea ^a   Mariotti, Sergio ^a   Minichilli, Alessandro ^b   Piscitello, Lucia ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Cross border investments; Family firms; International experience; Internationalization theories and foreign market entry; Multiple regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010951317     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2016.23     Document Type: Article

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