Modular production networks: A new American model of industrial organization

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 451-496

  Sturgeon, Timothy J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); CORPORATE STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036296037     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/11.3.451     Document Type: Article

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