Learning from competing partners: Outcomes and durations of scale and link alliances in Europe, North America and Asia

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-126

  Dussauge, Pierre ^a   Garrette, Bernard ^a   Mitchell, Will ^b  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance outcomes; Capability appropriation; Cooperation between competitors; Evolutionary perspective; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003070831     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(200002)21:2<99::AID-SMJ80>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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