A race to the bottom or governance from the top?

Coping With Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 30-51

  Spar, Debora L ^a   Yoffie, David B ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84905618671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203466162     Document Type: Chapter

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