Whatever happened to competition in space agency procurement? The case of NASA

Journal of Applied Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 221-236

  Zervos, Vasilis ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NASA; Procurement; Space agencies; Space industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849109205     PISSN: 15140326     EISSN: 16676726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2008.12040505     Document Type: Article

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