Knowledge intensive business services: Understanding organizational forms and the role of country institutions

Knowledge Intensive Business Services: Organizational Forms and National Institutions

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-25

  Grimshaw, Damian ^a   Miozzo, Marcela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881680444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781847201751.00008     Document Type: Chapter

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