Local clusters with non-local demand: An exploratory study of small ethnic worlds in the Indian IT industry

A New Generation in International Strategic Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 263-281

  Täube, Florian A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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