Socio-political processes in international management in post-socialist contexts: Knowledge, learning and transnational institution building

Journal of International Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 340-357

  Clark, Ed ^a   Geppert, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management learning; Multinational corporations; Socio political processes; Transition and emerging economies; Transnational institution building

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749077927     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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