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Original Articles

From Shallow Resource Pools to Emerging Clusters: The Role of Multinational Enterprise Subsidiaries in Peripheral Areas

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Pages 1965-1979 | Received 01 Jul 2013, Accepted 28 Oct 2014, Published online: 06 Jan 2015

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