Clean and competitive?: Small-scale bleachers and dyers in Tirupur, India

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 147-170

  Crow, Michael ^a   Batz, Michael B ^b  

^a The Cadmus Group   (United States)

^b RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

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EID: 84865356571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331321     Document Type: Chapter

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