Industrial Clustering Leadership in Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico
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عنوان ژورنال: IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267)
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2455-2267
DOI: 10.21013/jmss.v4.n3.p9