Customer power, strategic investment, and the failure of leading firms

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-218

  Christensen, Clayton M ^a   Bower, Joseph L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure; Innovation; Resource allocation; Strategy change; Technological change

Indexed keywords

CHANGE; FAILURES; FIRM; INNOVATION; INVESTMENT;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030353939     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199603)17:3<197::aid-smj804>3.0.co;2-u     Document Type: Article

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