Capital dependence, business political behavior, and change to the multilayered subsidiary form

Social Problems

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 301-326

  Boies, John ^a   Prechel, Harland ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036669661     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2002.49.3.301     Document Type: Article

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