The importance of language in international knowledge transfer

Management International Review

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-360

  Welch, Denice E ^a   Welch, Lawrence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Knowledge transfer; Language; Reconfiguration agent

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350085169     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-008-0019-7     Document Type: Article

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