Strategic innovation with complete and incomplete labour market contracts

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 265-282

  Ulph, Alistair ^a   Ulph, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complete contracts; Incomplete contracts; Strategic innovation; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035645253     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00244     Document Type: Article

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