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Exploring the phenomenon of company-specific production systems: one-best-way or own-best-way?

Torbjørn Netland NTNU, Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Trondheim, Norway and McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1084-1097 | Received 27 Jun 2011, Accepted 13 Mar 2012, Published online: 26 Apr 2012

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