UK Vietnamese businesses: Cultural influences and intracultural differences

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-69

  Bagwell, Susan ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644643390     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c058     Document Type: Article

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