EMERGING STRUCTURAL PATTERNS WITHIN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: TOWARD PROCESS-BASED STRUCTURES.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 December 2001
Thomas W. Malnight
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This study investigated the nature and extent of organizational change in the context of globalization through a longitudinal matched-pair analysis of two leading pharmaceutical companies. The stru...
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