Outsourcing of tasks and outsourcing of assets: Evidence from automotive supplier parks in Brazil

Platforms, Markets and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 251-272

  Sako, Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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