Division of labor and division of knowledge: Why the nature of the causality matters for the evolutionary theory of the firm

Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation: Schumpeterian Legacies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-63

  Becker, Markus C ^a   Cohendet, Patrick ^a   Llerena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Adam Smith; Charles Babbage; Division of knowledge; Division of labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 56249139310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49465-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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