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7 - The Allocation of Asset Ownership

from Part III - Implications

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. 115 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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