Doing business in the industrialized countries

International Business : A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 439-482

  Thrasou, Alkis ^a   Katsioloudes, Marios I ^b   Hadjidakis, Spyros ^a  

^a INTERCOLLEGE   (Cyprus)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

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EID: 84909580003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780080471464     Document Type: Chapter

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