Legitimation, geographical scale, and organizational density: Regional patterns of foundings of american automobile producers, 1885-1981

Social Science Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-398

  Bigelow, Lyda S ^a   Carroll, Glenn R ^a   Seidel, Marc David L ^b   Tsai, Lucia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0011468298     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ssre.1997.0591     Document Type: Article

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