Technology development mode: A transaction cost conceptualization

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 515-531

  Robertson, Thomas S ^a   Gatignon, Hubert ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Alliances; Innovation; R D; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000982577     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199806)19:6<515::AID-SMJ960>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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