DOI:10.2307/41166696 - Corpus ID: 155113053
Global or Stateless Corporations are National Firms with International Operations
@article{Hu1992GlobalOS,
title={Global or Stateless Corporations are National Firms with International Operations},
author={Yao-su Hu},
journal={California Management Review},
year={1992},
volume={34},
pages={107 - 126},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:155113053}
}- Yao-su Hu
- Published 1 January 1992
- Business, Law
- California Management Review
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