The Use of Computer Simulation in Strategy and Organization Research

Computational Analysis of Firms' Organization and Strategic Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-35

  Mollona, Edoardo ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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