Ownership structure and new product development in transnational corporations in China

Transnational Corporations

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 17-44

  Thomas, Howard ^a   Li, Xiaoying ^a   Liu, Xiaming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; New product development; Ownership structure; TNCs

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249103321     PISSN: 10149562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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