Evolution of industrial diversification and its determinants in West Germany: Evidence from population data of enterprises

Sandra Kublina; Muhammad Ali

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259352

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Evolution of industrial diversification and its determinants in West Germany: Evidence from population data of enterprises

Sandra Kublina ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Kublina, Muhammad Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
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Muhammad Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra Kublina, Muhammad Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: m.alishuja@yahoo.com, alishuja@s3h.nust.edu.pk

Affiliations Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0668-5699

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Evolution of industrial diversification and its determinants in West Germany: Evidence from population data of enterprises

Sandra Kublina,
Muhammad Ali

Published: November 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259352

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Posted by malishuja on 17 Nov 2021 at 10:08 GMT

Authors are extremely grateful to Prof. Michael Fritsch for his comments and support during the conceptualization and writeup of this paper. We are also thankful to Dr. Frank Neffke for inspiring us to conduct research on one of the sub-objectives of this study on the comparison between the dominance of sectoral shares or entropy components of the RV index. We are also thankful to Dr. Udo Brixy for his invaluable help in data acquisition.

No competing interests declared.

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