Knowledge and creative destruction over the industry life cycle: The case of the German automobile industry

Economica

Volumn 76, Issue 301, 2009, Pages 132-148

  Cantner, Uwe ^a   Krüger, Jens J ^a   von Rhein, Kristina ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 57949112013     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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