Structural adjustments and conflicting recipes in the US auto industry

Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Making Sense of Structural Adjustment Processes in Industrial Sectors, Regions and Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 123-158

  Spender, J C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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