Weakening Ties: The embeddedness of small UK Electronics Firms

Embedded Enterprise and Social Capital: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 95-112

  Openshaw, Sara ^a   Taylor, Michael ^b  

^a Dorchester Police Station   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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