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New Technology and Employment of Japanese Subsidiaries in Thai Manufacturing

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    For this fieldwork, the author is greatly indebted to the ILO Association of Japan in Tokyo. I wish to thank the staff of the association for the valuable assistance given to me.

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Kuriyama, N. (2017). New Technology and Employment of Japanese Subsidiaries in Thai Manufacturing. In: Japanese Human Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43053-9_8

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