Management Education in a Globalizing World: Lessons from the French Experience

Management Learning

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 363-391

  Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Usunier, Jean Claude ^b  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; France; Global managers; Globalization; Management education; Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347081822     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507601323005     Document Type: Article

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