The future of chinese management research: Rigour and relevance redux

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-89

  Von Glinow, Mary Ann ^a   Teagarden, Mary B ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Garvin School of International Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Polycontextuality; Relevance; Research team; Rigour

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350304215     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2008.00137.x     Document Type: Article

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