The duality of collaboration: Inducements and opportunities in the formation of interfirm linkages

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-343

  Ahuja, Gautam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Collaboration; Innovation; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000240202     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(200003)21:3<317::AID-SMJ90>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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