Making sense and identifying aspects of Indian culture(s) in organisations: Demystifying through empirical evidence

Culture and Organization

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 355-365

  Pereira, Vijay ^a   Malik, Ashish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

cross cultural management; culture; India; Indianness; postcolonial influences; reflexive ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944184657     PISSN: 14759551     EISSN: 14772760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2015.1082265     Document Type: Article

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