Organisational restructuring, knowledge and spatial scale: The case of the US department store industry

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 8-33

  Wood, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Organisational restructuring; Retail; Scale

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RETAILING; SERVICE SECTOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036171603     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00180     Document Type: Article

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