Firm entry and institutional lock-in: An organizational ecology analysis of the global fashion design industry

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1031-1048

  Wenting, Rik ^a   Frenken, Koen ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING INDUSTRY; DEMAND ANALYSIS; GARMENT INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 79960738146     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr032     Document Type: Article

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