European integration and corporate restructuring: The strategy of Unilever, c 1957-c.1990

Economic History Review

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 113-139

  Jones, Geoffrey ^a   Miskell, Peter ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18144426064     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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