Cultivating cultural differences in asymmetric power relations

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-358

  Ybema, Sierk ^a   Byun, Hyunghae ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culture; Identity; Intercultural communication; Multinationals; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949472826     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595809346600     Document Type: Review

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