Ready-to-wear development? Foreign investment, technology transfer, and learning by watching in the apparel trade

Social Forces

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-156

  Schrank, Andrew ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/sof.2004.0126     Document Type: Article

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