Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests and sports mega-events: The thin policies of competitiveness within the hard outcomes of neoliberalism

Sociological Review

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages 59-70

  Hall, C Michael ^a  

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EID: 33748316485     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00653.x     Document Type: Review

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