Corporate form and the state: Business policy and change from the multidivisional to the multilayered subsidiary form

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-174

  Prechel, Harland ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1997.tb00437.x     Document Type: Article

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