Balancing emic and etic: Situated learning and ethnography of communication in cross-cultural management education

Academy of Management Learning and Education

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 380-395

  Zhu, Yunxia ^a   Bargiela Chiappini, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84884938460     PISSN: 1537260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amle.2012.0221     Document Type: Article

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