Incommensurate technological paradigms? Quarreling in the RFID industry

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 785-810

  Dew, Nicholas ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; PARADIGM SHIFT; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 33750100987     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtl017     Document Type: Article

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