Economic selection theory

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 443-470

  Knudsen, Thorbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Competitive selection; Darwinism; Economic selection theory; Evolutionary economics; Local copy selection; Managerial selection; Replication; Routines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035981366     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-002-0126-8     Document Type: Article

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