Productivity, profitability and financial performance

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 711-751

  Bottazzi, Giulio ^a   Secchi, Angelo ^b   Tamagni, Federico ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY; SERVICE SECTOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 49149083863     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn027     Document Type: Article

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