Improving environmental performance of small firms through joint action: Indian tannery clusters

Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collective Action

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 112-128

  Kennedy, Loraine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 77950192675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331321     Document Type: Chapter

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