Transnational entrepreneurship and Chinese business networks: The regionalization of Chinese business firms from Singapore

Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 184-216

  Yeung, Henry W C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84917162548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203060308     Document Type: Chapter

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