A clash of capitalisms: Foreign shareholders and corporate restructuring in 1990s Japan

American Sociological Review

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 451-471

  Ahmadjian, Christina L ^a   Robbins, Gregory E ^b  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; CAPITALISM; CORPORATE STRATEGY; INVESTMENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 23944482741     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240507000305     Document Type: Article

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