The resurgence of German capital in Europe: EU integration and the restructuring of Atlantic networks of interlocking directorates after 1991

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 384-408

  van der Pijl, Kees ^a   Holman, Otto ^b   Raviv, Or ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corporate structures; European integration; Germany; Interlocking directorates; Transnational capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054881676     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2010.488454     Document Type: Article

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