Steady change: The 200 largest US manufacturing firms throughout the 20th century

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 817-845

  Louçã, Francisco ^a   Mendonça, Sandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036689497     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/11.4.817     Document Type: Article

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