Productive alternatives: Flexibility, governance, and strategic choice in industrial history

Business History around the World

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 62-80

  Zeitlin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84926999200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511512100.005     Document Type: Chapter

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