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The inefficiency trap: strategy failure in the German machine tool industry

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  • Fleischer, Manfred, 1997. "The inefficiency trap: strategy failure in the German machine tool industry," EconStor Books, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 122877.
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