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Surviving in a declining industry: a new entrepreneurial history of Nihonsakari since the 1970s

Qing XiaGraduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 221-240 | Published online: 26 Oct 2021

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