The Productive Efficiency of Italian Producer Cooperatives: Evidence from Conventional and Cooperative Firms

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages 3-28

  Jones, Derek C ^a  

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EID: 33847158689     PISSN: 08853339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3339(06)10001-0     Document Type: Review

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