Scale And Scope In Technology: Large Firms 1930/1990

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 255-288

  Fai, Felicia ^a   Tunzelmann, Nicholas Von ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversification; Patents; Scale; Scope; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010273466     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590100000011     Document Type: Article

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