Postcolonialism and organizational knowledge in the wake of China's presence in Africa: Interrogating South-South relations

Organization

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-204

  Jackson, Terence ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China in Africa; dependency theory; geopolitics; international and cross cultural management; management and organizational knowledge; modernization theory; postcolonial theory; postcolonialism; South South dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857744781     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508411429395     Document Type: Article

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