Conflict and change: Foreign ownership and the Japanese firm

Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese Firm

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-279

  Olcott, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511657429     Document Type: Book

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