Scaling behaviour in the growth of companies

Nature

Volumn 379, Issue 6568, 1996, Pages 804-806

  Stanley, Michael H R ^a   Amaral, Luís A N ^a   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^a   Havlin, Shlomo ^a,b   Leschhorn, Heiko ^a   Maass, Philipp ^a   Salinger, Michael A ^c   Stanley, H Eugene ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000559594     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/379804a0     Document Type: Article

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