A model of innovation and knowledge development among boundedly rational rival firms

Team Performance Management

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 82-95

  Boari, Cristina ^a   Fioretti, Guido ^a   Odorici, Vincenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Industrial clusters; Innovation; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017246377     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TPM-10-2015-0050     Document Type: Article

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