Cultivating Foreignness: How Organizations Maintain and Leverage Minority Identities

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-88

  Edman, Jesper ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreignness; Identity; Institutional logics; Multinational enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958842511     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12129     Document Type: Article

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