Overcoming corporate rigidities in the dynamic Chinese market

Business Horizons

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 501-509

  Li, Shenxue ^a   Easterby Smith, Mark ^b   Lyles, Marjorie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agility; China; Corporate rigidity; Dynamic market

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249123325     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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