Initial advantage: The origins of the geographic concentration of the pharmaceutical industry in the Mid-Atlantic region

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 839-862

  Feldman, Maryann ^a   Schreuder, Yda ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 0010139702     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/5.3.839     Document Type: Article

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