Politics and Power in Multinational Companies: Integrating the International Business and Organization Studies Perspectives

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  2016

• Venue

  Organization Studies

• Publication date

  2016-06-30

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Business, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0170840616656152
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