Managerial prescriptions under the resource-based view of strategy: The example of motivational techniques

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1169-1182

  Mosakowski, Elaine ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Luck; Motivation; Rent generation and sustainability; Resource based view of strategy; Uncertain imitability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000676748     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(1998120)19:12<1169::AID-SMJ4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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