Today's state-owned enterprises of China: Are they dying dinosaurs or dynamic dynamos?

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 825-843

  Ralston, David A ^a   Terpstra Tong, Jane ^b   Terpstra, Robert H ^b   Wang, Xueli ^c   Egri, Carolyn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c Tsinghua University   (China)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Foreign controlled business; Organizational culture; Ownership type; Privately owned enterprise; State owned enterprise

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CHINA; FOREIGN-CONTROLLED BUSINESS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PRIVATELY OWNED ENTERPRISES; STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33747479178     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.545     Document Type: Article

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