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12 - Adaptation Frequency and the Boundary of the Firm

from Part IV - Empirical Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Birger Wernerfelt
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Adaptation, Specialization, and the Theory of the Firm
Foundations of the Resource-Based View
, pp. 201 - 228
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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