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13 - Barriers to organizational creativity in Chinese companies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Arie Y. Lewin
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
Martin Kenney
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Johann Peter Murmann
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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China's Innovation Challenge
Overcoming the Middle-Income Trap
, pp. 339 - 367
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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