Chapter 4 Vertical integration: Determinants and effects

Handbook of Industrial Organization

Volumn 1, Issue , 1989, Pages 183-255

  Perry, Martin K ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 70350102522     PISSN: 1573448X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-448X(89)01007-1     Document Type: Review

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