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Institutional idiosyncrasies and alternative ways of doing business: What can we learn from East Asia?

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  2. Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R. China

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Taube, M. Institutional idiosyncrasies and alternative ways of doing business: What can we learn from East Asia?. Asian Bus Manage 14, 251–256 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/abm.2015.13

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