Cost structure, economies of capacity utilization and scope in swiss higher education institutions

Universities and Strategic Knowledge Creation: Specialization and Performance in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 272-305

  Filippini, Massimo ^a   Lepori, Benedetto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

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