Asia’s Chinese entrepreneurs between myth-making and renewal

Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 23-42

  Menkhoff, Thomas ^a   Sikorski, Douglas ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84917098128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203060308     Document Type: Chapter

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