Industrial districts as organizational environments: Resources, networks and structures

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 349-370

  Popp, Andrew ^a   Toms, Steve ^b   Wilson, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Dynamics; Resource dependency; Resource based views

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009644876     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935906071909     Document Type: Article

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