Doing Better Research on Organizational Behaviour in Chinese Cultural Settings: Suggestions from the Notebooks of Two Fellow-Travellers

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 455-475

  Bond, Michael Harris ^a   Muethel, Miriam ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese culture; Cross cultural; Organizational behaviour; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863422619     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2011.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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