A fitness landscape approach to technological complexity, modularity, and vertical disintegration

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 288-305

  Frenken, Koen ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decomposability; Modularity; NK model; Transaction costs economics; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; OUTSOURCING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TRANSACTION COST; VERTICAL INTEGRATION;

MARENGO;

EID: 33745998791     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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