Inter-firm co-operation and competition in industrial districts

Organization Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 701-724

  Staber, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co operation; Ecological theory; Interfirm networks; Neo institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000804490     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069801900407     Document Type: Article

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