Globalisation, shareholder value, restructuring: The (non)-transformation of siemens

New Political Economy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 365-387

  Börsch, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; STOCK MARKET;

EID: 4844229339     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1356346042000257804     Document Type: Article

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