Shifting Ties: Social Networks in the Surgical Instrument Cluster of Sialkot, Pakistan
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The Dynamics of Inter-linked Clusters: The surgical instrument sector of Sialkot, Pakistan and Tuttlingen, Germany
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عنوان ژورنال: Development and Change
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0012-155X,1467-7660
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00110