Intercultural mergers and acquisitions as 'legitimacy crises' of models of capitalism: A UK-German case study

Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 787-809

  Halsall, Robert ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Globalization; Intercultural mergers; Legitimacy crisis; Models of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149109920     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508408091003     Document Type: Article

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