Festina lente: Learning and inertia among Italian automobile producers, 1896-1981

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1279-1301

  Kim, Tai Young ^a   Dobrev, Stanislav D ^a   Solari, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346403227     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/12.6.1279     Document Type: Article

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