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The Irrational Escalation of Commitment and the Ironic Labor Politics of the Rust Belt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Glenn Beamer  and
David E. Lewis
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 676 - 706
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2003. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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