The manufacturing modernization process: Mediating institutions and the facilitation of firm-level change

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 146-165

  Flynn, Erin ^b   Forrant, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031493634     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089124249701100204     Document Type: Article

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