Does inertia matter for parts manufacturers’ innovation?

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 705-716

  Wu, Shue ^a   Huang, Zhenlei ^b   Zhong, Weizhou ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Inertia; Innovation; Parts manufacturers; Population ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887971418     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1191-5     Document Type: Article

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