Organizing for synergies

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 77-114

  Dessein, Wouter ^a   Garicano, Luis ^b   Gertner, Robert ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954161633     PISSN: 19457669     EISSN: 19457685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mic.2.4.77     Document Type: Article

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