Clashing paradigms? Total quality, financial restructuring and theories of the firm

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 665-700

  Goldstein, Don ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0040800849     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/6.3.665     Document Type: Article

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