This paper is part of a three-year project at the University of Bradford Management Centre ‘The Foreign Market Servicing Strategies and Competitiveness of British Firms' sponsored by the ESRC in the Competitiveness and Regeneration of British Industry Research Programme (Grant No. F20250027).
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