The Multiplant Business Enterprise and Geographical Space: Some Issues in the Study of External Control and Regional Development

Regional Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1976, Pages 401-412

  Dicken, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000271507     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595237600185431     Document Type: Article

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