Organizational challenges and strategic responses of retail TNCs in post-WTO-entry China

Economic Geography

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-73

  Tacconelli, Wance ^a   Wrigley, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Corporations; Institutional changes; Organizational challenges; Retail transnational; Strategic responses; Territorial embeddedness

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; FIRM OWNERSHIP; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBALIZATION; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RETAILING; SOCIALISM; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 69249122427     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2008.01003.x     Document Type: Article

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