What's driving the new economy?: The benefits of workplace innovation

Economic Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 493, 2004, Pages

  Black, Sandra E ^a   Lynch, Lisa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTIVITY; WORKING CONDITIONS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542317426     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-0133.2004.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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