Organizational structure, context, customer orientation, and performance: Lessons from chinese state-owned enterprises

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1131-1151

  Lin, Xiaohua ^a   Germain, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese state owned enterprises; Context; Customer knowledge; Organizational structure; Performance

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DECENTRALIZATION;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0142228694     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.348     Document Type: Article

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