Precarious collaboration: Business survival after partners shut down or form new partnerships

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. SUMMER, 1996, Pages 99-115

  Singh, Kulwant ^a   Mitchell, Will ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Business survival; Collaboration; Evolutionary strategy

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNITED STATES;

EVOLUTION; FIRM COOPERATION; FIRM STRATEGY; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION INDUSTRY; ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 0030372039     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250171008     Document Type: Article

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