Innovation in investment banking: The dynamics of control systems within the Chandlerian firm

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-141

  Nightingale, Paul ^a   Poll, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MORGAN STANLEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INNOVATION; INVESTMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0034109289     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/9.1.113     Document Type: Article

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