No "third way" for economic organization? Networks and quasi-markets in broadcasting

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-75

  Deakin, Simon ^a   Lourenço, Ana ^b   Pratten, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 60749129203     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn042     Document Type: Article

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