The Risk Environment of Film Making: Warner Bros in the Inter-War Years

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 196-220

  Sedgwick, John ^a   Pokorny, Michael ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000709967     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.1997.0691     Document Type: Article

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