Process and product innovation: Complementarity in a vertically differentiated monopoly with discrete consumer types

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-200

  Bandyopadhyay, Swapnendu ^a   Acharyya, Rajat ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

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Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; INNOVATION; MONOPOLY;

EID: 3042777244     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2004.00301.x     Document Type: Article

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