Noda Shōichi and Roku-Roku Shōten, a machine tool manufacturer: A case study of a competent small-to-medium-sized enterprise in pre-war and wartime Japan

Social Science Japan Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-122

  Sawai, Minoru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0039441160     PISSN: 13691465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ssjj/2.1.107     Document Type: Article

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