Restructuring the American semiconductor industry: Vertical integration of design houses and wafer fabricators

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-237

  Ó Huallacháin, Breandán ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible specialization; Probit model; Semiconductor design houses; Transaction costs; Vertical integration; Wafer fabricating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001528304     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.872051     Document Type: Article

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