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Business Competition as a Self-organizing Process: Toward an Increasing Returns-Based Microeconomic Theory

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  1. University of the Americas-Puebla Business School, Business Administration Department, Puebla, Mexico

    Fernando Buendia

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università di Salerno, Italy

    Massimo Salzano

  2. GREQAM/EHESS, Université d’Aix-Marseille III, France

    Alan Kirman

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Buendia, F. (2005). Business Competition as a Self-organizing Process: Toward an Increasing Returns-Based Microeconomic Theory. In: Salzano, M., Kirman, A. (eds) Economics: Complex Windows. New Economic Windows. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0344-6_7

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