Performance and practice: Examining the machine tool industries of Japan and the United States

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-194

  Kalafsky, Ronald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Japan; Machine tools; Manufacturing; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644831725     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2006.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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