Global business and the dialectic: Towards an ecological understanding

Human Systems Management

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 249-265

  Singer, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dialectic; Ecology; International business; Strategy

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS;

INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

EID: 0036950951     PISSN: 01672533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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