The sustainability of the asian wooden furniture industry

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The sustainability of the asian wooden furniture industry

This paper attempts to analyze the sustainability of the Asian wooden furniture industry. Despite booming exports, the furniture industry is besieged with stagnating productivity. The growth attributed to rising exports of low-value, contract furniture is not sustainable in the long-term as other ch...

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Main Authors:	Ratnasingam, J., Ioras, F.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2003
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/112422/

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