The road more popular versus the road less travelled: An 'insider's' perspective of advancing chinese management research

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-105

  Cheng, Bor Shiuan ^a   Wang, An Chih ^a   Huang, Min Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese management research; Chinese theory of management; Emic approach; Indigenous research approach; Paternalistic leadership; Theory development

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350341965     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2008.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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