This paper estimates the effects of actual and potential rivalry on profitability of firms in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry during the 20-year period 1963-82. The results show that during the 1960s actual rivalry among the sampled firms did not materially affect firm profitability, but that durin
Innovative output and firm size in the pharmaceutical industry
β Scribed by Samuel B. Graves; Nan S. Langowitz
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 814 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0925-5273
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