Post-chandlerian firms: Technological change and firm boundaries

Australian Economic History Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-94

  Robertson, Paul L ^a   Verona, Gianmario ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Business history; Internalisation; Management; Outsourcing; Technological change; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247889834     PISSN: 00048992     EISSN: 14678446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2006.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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