Transnational entrepreneurs and the global shift of production: The example of diamond manufacturing

Industrial Transition: New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 155-171

  Henn, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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