Internationalisation and the Smaller Firm: A Review of Contemporary Empirical Research
Author(s): Nicole E. Coviello and Andrew McAuley
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Source: MIR: Management International Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (1999 3rd Quarter), pp. 223-256
Published by: Springer
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and the Smaller Firm:
Internationalisation
A Review of ContemporaryEmpirical
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Abstract
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