Knowledge disclosure and transmission in buyer-supplier relationships

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-288

  Bönte, Werner ^a,b   Wiethaus, Lars ^a,c  

^a Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c Law and Economics Consulting Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Knowledge disclosure; Repeated games; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 43149095343     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: 15737160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-007-9154-8     Document Type: Article

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