Knowledge transfer in multinational corporations

Management International Review

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 567-593

  Minbaeva, Dana B ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Knowledge transfer; Multinational corporations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548201654     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-007-0030-4     Document Type: Article

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