Employment and market innovation in Chinese business group affiliated firms: The role of group control systems

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-256

  White, Robert E ^a   Hoskisson, Robert E ^a   Yiu, Daphne W ^b   Bruton, Garry D ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business groups; China; Control systems; Innovation; Institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949106079     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2008.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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