Reform and restructuring in a Chinese state-owned enterprise: Sinotrans in the 1990s

Management International Review

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-172

  Buckley, Peter J ^a,b   Clegg, Jeremy ^a   Tan, Hui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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