Racing and back-pedalling into the future: New product introduction and organizational mortality in the US bicycle industry, 1880-1918

Organization Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 405-431

  Dowell, Glen ^a   Swaminathan, Anand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational ecology; Product introduction; Survival; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039596771     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840600212005     Document Type: Article

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