Flexible practices for mass production goals: Economic governance in the Indian automobile industry

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 335-367

  D'Costa, Anthony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; ECONOMY OF SCALE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 2042500462     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth014     Document Type: Article

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