The UK defence electronics industry: Adjusting to change

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 565-586

  Dowdall, Paul ^a   Braddon, Derek ^b   Hartley, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business conduct; Competitiveness; Defence electronics; Industry structure; Network centric warfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844286499     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1024269042000246684     Document Type: Article

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