What the Folk Theorem doesn't tell us

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 381-386

  Gibbons, Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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CORPORATE STRATEGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33645884700     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtl002     Document Type: Article

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