Economics and management of competitive strategy

Economics and Management of Competitive Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-510

  Spulber, Daniel F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1142/7171     Document Type: Book

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