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Editors' Introduction: Business History and the Middle East: Local Contexts, Multinational Responses—A Special Section of Enterprise & Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Andrew Godley  and
Relli Shechter
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Special Section on the Middle East
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 631 - 636
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2008. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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