Corporate performances and market selection: Some comparative evidence

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1953-1996

  Bottazzi, Giulio ^a   Dosi, Giovanni ^a   Jacoby, Nadia ^b   Secchi, Angelo ^c   Tamagni, Federico ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MARKET CONDITIONS; PROFITABILITY;

FRANCE; ITALY;

EID: 78649589451     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq063     Document Type: Article

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