Sport as business

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 503-511

  Zimbalist, Andrew ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

SPORT;

EID: 1542505549     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/19.4.503     Document Type: Article

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