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This article draws together a few seminal ideas from geopolitics, systems theory, and management policy, and offers six propositions about simplified organizational and nationstate conditions necessary for economic vitality in and around the World Ocean: the Pacific Basin.
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Cope, R.G. Six management propositions for economic vitality in the Pacific Basin: A World Ocean perspective. Asia Pacific J Manage 2, 81–95 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01734690
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