Organizational Forms and Multi-population Dynamics: Economic Transition in China

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 517-547

  Xu, Dean ^a   Lu, Jane W ^a,b   Gu, Qian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; ecology theory; economic transition; interpopulation relations; organizational forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905748818     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839214541866     Document Type: Article

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