Cultural dimensions in business life: Hofstede's indices for Latvia and Lithuania

Baltic Journal of Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-376

  Huettinger, Maik ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baltic states; Latvia; Lithuania; National cultures

Indexed keywords

EID: 53049101321     PISSN: 17465265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465260810902414     Document Type: Article

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