If It Doesn't Kill You: Learning from Ecological Competition

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 23, Issue , 2006, Pages 243-271

  Greve, Henrich R ^a   Rao, Hayagreeva ^a  

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EID: 33745698466     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-3322(06)23008-0     Document Type: Review

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