Editorial

Brusco, Sebastiano 1996 'Rules of the game in industrial districts'. ESF-EMOT Conference 'Interfirm networks: Outcomes and policy implications', Modena. To appear in A. Grandori (ed.), Interfirm networks: Organization and industrial competitiveness. London: Routledge .

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Dei Ottati, Gabi 1996 'The changing forms of supplier relations in an Italian industrial district from the fifties to the nineties: An exit-voice approach'. ESF-EMOT Workshop 'Economic performance outcomes in Europe', Berlin.

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Godley Andrew 1996 'Credit rationing among small firm networks in the London and New York garment industries'. ESF-EMOT Conference 'Inter-firm networks: Outcomes and policy implications', Modena. To appear in A. Grandori (ed.), Interfirm networks: Organization and industrial competitiveness. London: Routledge .

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Grandori, Anna , and Massimo Neri 1996 'The fairness properties of networks'. ESF-EMOT Conference 'Interfirm networks: Outcomes and policy implications', Modena. To appear in A. Grandori (ed.), Interfirm networks: Organization and industrial competitiveness. London: Routledge .

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Lipparini Andrea , and Alessandro Lomi 1996 'Interorganizational relations in the Modena bio-medical industry'. ESF-EMOT Conference 'Interfirm networks: Outcomes and policy implications', Modena. To appear in A. Grandori (ed.), Interfirm networks: Organization and industrial competitiveness. London: Routledge .

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Whittington, Richard , and Michael Meyer 1997 'Do institutions matter any more? Strategy and structure in France, Germany and the UK, 1950-1993' . ESF-EMOT Final Conference, Stresa.