The comparative efficiency and productivity of labor-managed and capital-managed firms

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 45-69

  Doucouliagos, Chris ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0039725115     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/048661349702900203     Document Type: Review

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