'The one-company approach': Transnationalism in an Israeli-Palestinian subsidiary of a multinational corporation

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 693-712

  Ailon, Galit ^a   Kunda, Gideon ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Control; Globalization; Israeli Palestinian conflict; Multinational corporations; Nationalism; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249137050     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609104808     Document Type: Article

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