Indices of industrial diversity and regional economic composition

Growth and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 474-509

  Mack, Elizabeth ^a   Grubesic, Tony H ^a   Kessler, Erin ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; INDEX METHOD; LOCAL ECONOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 34548212360     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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