Maquiladoras: Entrepreneurial experimentation to global competitiveness

Business Horizons

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Brouthers, Lance Eliot ^a   McCray, John P ^a   Wilkinson, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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EID: 0033089712     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0007-6813(99)80007-x     Document Type: Article

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