No place like home? Relocation, capabilities, and firm survival in the German machine tool industry after World War II

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-28

  Buenstorf, Guido ^a   Guenther, Christina ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^c WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; RELOCATION; SECONDARY SECTOR INDUSTRY; URBAN REGION;

GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC;

EID: 79251542377     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq055     Document Type: Article

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