A collection of essays which illustrates the variety of enterprise forms characteristic of different
European countries, the extent to which specific enterprise forms cross national borders and
the impact of internationalization on nationally characteristic forms of enterprise organization
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This is a revised and updated version of an article which appeared in the
European Journal of Industrial Relationsin 2000 6(1): 9–34.
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