Can Yin-Yang Guide Chinese Indigenous Management Research?

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-27

  Li, Xin ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chinese; Dialectic; Indigenous; Management research; Overconfidence; Yin Yang

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897763918     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/more.12042     Document Type: Article

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