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Professor Neil Kay

CS-A3-engb 1/2011 (1008)

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Competitive Strategy
Neil Kay, BA, PhD, FRSA is Professor of Business Economics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of the elective Competitive Strategy as well as numerous articles and five books on corporate strategy and industrial economics. The books have sold worldwide,



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