Explaining interfirm cooperation and performance: Toward a reconciliation of predictions from the resource-based view and organizational economics

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 867-888

  Combs, James G ^a   Ketchen Jr , David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interfirm cooperation; Organizational economics; Performance; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000034125     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199909)20:9<867::aid-smj55>3.0.co;2-6     Document Type: Article

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