Italian industrial districts: Nature, structure, and value creation

Small Business Clustering Technologies: Applications in Marketing, Management, IT and Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 63-98

  Falcone, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-126-1.ch004     Document Type: Chapter

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