Business-government interactions in a globalizing economy: Introduction to the special issue

Business and Society

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-135

  Wilts, Arnold ^a,c   Skippari, Mika ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate political action; Internationalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249650113     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650307301385     Document Type: Article

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