Corporate bureaucracies and united states competitiveness

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-154

  Engelbrecht, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corporate bureaucracies; Export competitiveness; Jel classification numbers: f14, l60; Organisational efficiency; United states

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011241948     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: 14661829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/758516224     Document Type: Article

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