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Strategic Management: Strategic Managment
Gregory G. Dess, University of Texas at Dallas
G.T. Lumpkin, University of Illinois--Chicago

International Strategy: Creating Value in Global Markets

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2. Ibid.

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40. This section draws upon Arnold, op. cit., pp. 131–37; Berkowitz, op. cit.

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