Capacity utilization revisited: Software, control and the growth of large technical systems

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 477-517

  Nightingale, Paul ^a,b   Brady, Tim ^a,b   Davies, Andrew ^a,b   Hall, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0042068031     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/12.3.477     Document Type: Article

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