Organizing for discontinuous knowledge flows: A new perspective on the management of knowledge and innovation in MNCs

A New Generation in International Strategic Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 142-161

  Ambos, Björn ^a   Ambos, Tina C ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

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