Product quality, product price, and share dynamics in the German compact car market

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1085-1115

  Cantner, Uwe ^a,b   Krüger, Jens J ^c   Söllner, René ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; COMPETITIVENESS; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84867135811     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dts002     Document Type: Article

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