MBA imaginaries: Projections of internationalization

Management Learning

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-181

  Elliott, Carole ^a   Robinson, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imaginaries; international capital; internationalization; MBA; visual semiotics; webpage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858209186     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507611428854     Document Type: Article

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