Understanding cultural singularities of ‘Indianness’ in an intercultural business setting

Culture and Organization

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 427-447

  Laleman, Francis ^a   Pereira, Vijay ^b   Malik, Ashish ^c  

^a Beyond Borders   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

business process outsourcing; ethnographic and reflexive method; Indian culture; Indian organisations; Indianness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944281041     PISSN: 14759551     EISSN: 14772760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2015.1060232     Document Type: Article

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