Crowding, satiation, and saturation: The days of television series' lives

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 565-585

  Barroso, Alicia ^a   Giarratana, Marco S ^b   Reis, Samira ^a   Sorenson, Olav ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

categories; competition; niches; product demography; saturation

Indexed keywords

SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CATEGORIES; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; NICHES; PRODUCT DEMOGRAPHY; RELATIVE POSITIONING; SURVIVAL RATE;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84919460104     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2345     Document Type: Article

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