Tradition and change in the Chinese Business Enterprise: The family firm past and present

Chinese Business History: Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 127-144

  Chan, Wellington K K ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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