The emergence of China’s private-sector firms: Theory development in the midst of evolving institutional and industrial conditions

China's Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 297-310

  Schoonhoven, Claudia Bird ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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