Framing China: Transformation and institutional change through co-evolution

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-108

  Krug, Barbara ^a   Hendrischke, Hans ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

China's business system; Co evolution; Decentralization; Institutional change; Local autonomy; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849088934     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2007.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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