Monsanto facing uncertain futures: immobile artefacts, financial constraints and public acceptance of technological change

Agribusiness and Society: Corporate responses to environmentalism, market opportunities and public regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 42-67

  Vellema, Sietze ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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