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Mario Morroni: Knowledge, scale and transactions in the theory of the firm

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Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 69 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0936-9937
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-007-0063-7

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