Agglomeration, Related Variety, and Vertical Integration

Economic Geography

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-277

  Cainelli, Giulio ^a,b   Iacobucci, Donato ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Business groups; Related variety; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; OUTSOURCING;

ITALY;

EID: 84861192863     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: 19448287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2012.01156.x     Document Type: Article

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