Inside the transnational social space: cross-border management and owner relationship in a German subsidiary in Hungary

Journal of East European Management Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 318-339

  Dörrenbächer, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Headquarters subsidiary relationships; Knowledge transfer; Multinational corporations; Transnational communities; Transnational social space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999393354     PISSN: 09496181     EISSN: 18620019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5771/0949-6181-2007-4-318     Document Type: Article

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