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Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, David Weil, Timothy F. Bresnahan, B. Peter Pashigian, The Information-Integrated Channel: A Study of the U.S. Apparel Industry in Transition, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, Vol. 1995 (1995), pp. 175-246
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