Introduction: Interfirm heterogeneity-nature, sources and consequences for industrial dynamics

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1867-1890

  Dosi, Giovanni ^a   Lechevalier, Sébastien ^b   Secchi, Angelo ^c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION;

EID: 78649559861     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq062     Document Type: Article

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