A New Agenda for Research on the Trajectory of Chinese Capitalism

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-62

  Fligstein, Neil ^a   Zhang, Jianjun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese development; Comparative capitalism; Economic sociology; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952122930     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2009.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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