Technological evolution as creative destruction of process heterogeneity: Evidence from US plant-level date

Economic Systems Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-45

  Essletzbichler, Jürgen ^a   Rigby, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary economics; Heterogeneity; LRD; Technological change

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 14644402745     PISSN: 09535314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09535310500034168     Document Type: Article

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