Market partitioning and the geometry of the resource space

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1132-1153

  Péli, Gábor ^a   Nooteboom, Bart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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EID: 0040111655     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/210138     Document Type: Article

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