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Western Perceptions of Chinese Business: Sun Tzu and the Misuse of History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2017

Greg Clydesdale
Greg Clydesdale*
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Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Management and Organization Review , Volume 13 , Issue 4: Special Issue Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of Kwok Leung (1958–2015) , December 2017 , pp. 895 - 903
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Copyright © The International Association for Chinese Management Research 2017 

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