Institutionalizing the labour theory of value: Some obstacles to the reform of state-owned enterprises in China and Vietnam

Organization Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 909-928

  Boisot, Max H ^a  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Enterprise reforms; Institutional theory; Socialist economies; State owned enterprises; The labour theory of value

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040798261     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069601700602     Document Type: Article

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