Global quality standards and technological upgrading in the Brazilian auto-components industry

Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 265-296

  Quadros, Ruy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

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EID: 84896211898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781843769743.00017     Document Type: Chapter

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