Extending the theory of the multinational enterprise: internalization and strategic management perspectives

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Modes of market entry and strategies for South African Companies doing business in Tanzania

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Trademarks as “Global Merchants of Skill”: The Dynamics of the Japanese Match Industry, 1860s–1930s

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FDI in Investment Banking

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A Microeconometric Analysis of the Springboard Subsidiary: The Case of Spanish Firms

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Les Grands Auteurs en Management International

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Servicing Local Customers for Entering Foreign Markets

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The Vagueness of the “Country-Specific Advantage” Construct: Which Host-CSAs Matter for Chinese OFDI?

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Third World Multinationals – Then and Now

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La expansión interregional en Iberoamérica: la creación de valor a través de filiales trampolín

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Enterprise Immune System

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Probing the effects of cultural and psychic distance on M&A performance: the case of multilatinas' cross-border acquisitions

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Reverse knowledge transfer in Indian MNEs

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Essays of Strategic Alliance Portfolio Configuration— Its Performance Properties, Strategic Antecedents and Consequential Effects on Multinational Firms’ Continuing Foreign Expansion

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International diversification: entry mode, location decision and performance

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Automotive multinationals

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In Memoriam, Alan M. Rugman

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GOING GLOBAL: SUCCESS FACTORS FOR PENETRATING EMERGING MARKETS

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Intangible Resources and their Effect on the Internationalization-Performance Relationship

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Regional multinationals and government policy

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Role Typologies for Foreign Subsidiaries

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Company notes

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La distancia cultural y el riesgo país ¿cómo influyen en la inversión directa en el extranjero?

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The Role of the Middle Manager in the Strategy Development Process of the Multinational Subsidiary

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Two regional strategy frameworks

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Internationalisierungspotenziale von Open-Innovation-Strategien: Chancen und Herausforderungen für das Innovationsmanagement

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The Survival and Stock Performance of Emerging Country Firms in the United States

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Profiles of leading multinational enterprises

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Enterprises Internationalize with Firm-specific Advantages : Case Study of Swedish Firms

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Tracking based product authentication: Catching intruders in the supply chain

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Internationalization and performance – Higher or lower administration costs?

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LA DISTANCIA CULTURAL EN LA INTERNACIONALIZACIÓN DE LA EMPRESA. UNA VISIÓN TEÓRICA

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Banking multinationals

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Pharmaceutical and chemical multinationals

Rugman, A. M. (2005) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511614071.007

ESTRATÉGIAS IDIOSSINCRÁTICAS OU UNIFORMES: UMA ANÁLISE DAS MULTINACIONAIS DOS PAÍSES DO BRIC

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Is the sum more than the corporate entrepreneurship parts? The different effects of social capital on innovation, venturing, and renewal processes

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Unravelling Design Controversies in a Transnational Healthcare Information System

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FDI LOCATION DETERMINANTS in Central and Eastern European Countries

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Converting country-specific advantages into firm-specific advantages in emerging markets

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Intangible Resources and the Internationalization Process: Path Dependence of Building a Profitable Multinational Company

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ANÁLISIS SECTORIAL DE LOS RECURSOS INTANGIBLES: IMPLICACIONES ESTRATÉGICAS PARA BIENES Y SERVICIOS

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A Typology of Middle Manager Strategic Activity: An Exploration in an International Business Context

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The impact of bureaucracy/red tape on the employees of multinational enterprises

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Internacionalização e performance : o efeito moderador da diversificação de produtos

Beato, T. C. (2013) · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)

Regional multinationals: the data

Rugman, A. M. (2005) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511614071.002

Reversal of Fortune Solving the Puzzle of Emerging Economy ODI

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Growth of the International New Venture (INV)

Sisay, T. (2013)

Towards an Efficient Level of Centralization in MNEs

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The impact of changing individual cultural behaviours on the decision- making model for multinational entities in sub-Saharan Africa

Singh, M. (2010) · UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)

Multinational Enterprises and Investment Motivations: A Strategic Analysis of Inward Foreign Direct Investment into Ireland

Annan‐Diab, F. (2012) · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique)

Multinational Corporations & Regional Strategy

Franklin, O., & Nell, P. C. (2010) · CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School)

Internalization and the MNE: a note on the spread of ideas

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Internalization theory and beyond

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Transaction costs theory and its impact on strategies of multinational enterprises

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Institutional diversity in international business: the free-standing company and the managing agency

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