Enterprise networks and technological change: Aspects of light engineering and metal working in Accra

Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 169-190

  Sverrisson, Arni ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 85071036417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203988114-13     Document Type: Chapter

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