On clusters, hybrids, and other strange forms: The case of the French poultry industry

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 154-183

  Menard, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

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