STRUCTURAL INERTIA, IMITATION, AND FOREIGN EXPANSION: SOUTH KOREAN FIRMS AND BUSINESS GROUPS IN CHINA, 1987-95.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 June 2002
M. F. Guillen
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The foreign expansion of firms is healed as an instance of organizational and strategic change shaped by structural inertia and imitation. A longitudinal analysis of South Korean firms in China sho...
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