Foreign direct investment as an agent of change in Russian agrifood business - consequences of the export of chain management concepts by foreign investors

Post-Communist Economies

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-72

  Belaya, Vera ^a   Hanf, Jon Henrich ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; BUSINESS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POST-COMMUNISM;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77951156920     PISSN: 14631377     EISSN: 14653958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631370903525595     Document Type: Article

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