Knowledge flows within multinational corporations

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 473-496

  Gupta, Anil K ^a   Govindarajan, Vijay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge flows; Multinational corporations; Subsidiaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002844608     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(200004)21:4<473::AID-SMJ84>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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