Organizational inertia and competitive decline: The British cotton, shipbuilding and car industries, 1945-1975

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 379-403

  Lorenz, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 0000842435     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/3.2.379     Document Type: Article

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