Keeping organizational secrets: Protective institutional mechanisms and their costs

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 623-663

  Liebeskind, Julia Porter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000582220     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/6.3.623     Document Type: Article

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