Changing economic environments, evolving diversification strategies, and differing financial performance: Japan's largest textile firms, 1970-2001

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 897-940

  Colpan, Asli M ^a   Hikino, Takashi ^b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION; MANUFACTURING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 31144463535     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth079     Document Type: Article

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