Enterprise sales: Thatcher leads the charge

Privatization and Market Development: Global Movements in Public Policy Ideas

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 9-35

  Parker, David ^a,b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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