Playing by the rules: Institutional foundations of success and failure in the Taiwanese IT industry

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-53

  Hung, Shih Chang ^a   Whittington, Richard ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0033634574     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(98)00050-2     Document Type: Article

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