Building global institutions: The diffusion of management standards in the world economy - an institutional perspective

Linking Industries Across the World: Processes of Global Networking

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 3-27

  Braun, Boris ^a  

^a Otto FriedrichUniversity Bamberg ^*  (Germany)

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