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Corporate Restructuring: Converging World Pattern or Societally Specific Embeddedness?

Chikako UsuiUniversity of Missouri-St. Louis
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Richard A. ColignonDuquesne University
Pages 551-578 | Published online: 12 Dec 2016

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