Diversification: A road to inefficiency in product innovations?

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-229

  Dawid, Herbert ^a   Reimann, Marc ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Product diversification; Product innovation; Time to market

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954629041     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-010-0207-z     Document Type: Article

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