Market reform, division of labor, and increasing advantage of small-scale enterprises: The case of the machine tool industry in China

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 256-277

  Murakami, Naoki ^a   Liu, Deqiang ^b   Otsuka, Keijiro ^a,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 16144367270     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcec.1996.0064     Document Type: Article

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