Eclipsing adaptation: The translation of the US MBA model in China

Management Learning

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-230

  Lamb, Peter ^a   Currie, Graeme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business schools; China; diffusion; MBA; neo institutional theory; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858263559     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507611426533     Document Type: Article

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