Synthetics for the shah: DuPont and the challenges to multinationals in 1970s Iran

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 670-723

  Blaszczyk, Regina Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 57349191765     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/es/khn055     Document Type: Article

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