Blind trust: Market control, legal environments, and the dynamics of competitive intensity in the early American film industry, 1893-1920

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-34

  Mezias, Stephen J ^a   Boyle, Elizabeth ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 27744468562     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2005.50.1.1     Document Type: Article

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