Business as international politics: Drawing insights from nation-state to inter-firm alliances

Business and Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Shenkar, Oded ^a   Arikan, Ilgaz ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdisciplinary research; Strategic and political alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249101786     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1241     Document Type: Article

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