Strategic transformations in Danish and Swedish big business in an era of globalisation, 1973-2008

Business History

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-143

  Iversen, Martin Jes ^a   Larsson, Mats ^b  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big business; Denmark; Diversification; Economic integration; Internationalisation; Ownership; Small states economy; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; FIRM OWNERSHIP; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MANUFACTURING; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

DENMARK; SWEDEN;

EID: 79951860566     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2011.546670     Document Type: Article

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