Ethnic Networks, Extra-legal Certainty and Globalisation: Peering into the Diamond Industry

Contractual Certainty in International Trade: Empirical Studies and Theoretical Debates on Institutional Support for Global Economic Exchanges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-47

  Richman, Barak D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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