Plant scale in entry decisions: A comparison of start-ups and established firm entrants

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 353-364

  Hariharan, Sam ^a   Brush, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

L11: production and market structure, size distribution of firms; L21: business objectives of the firm

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949098946     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1468(199911)20:7<353::AID-MDE954>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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