Catching the wave: Alertness, responsiveness, and market influence in global electronic networks

Management Science

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1493-1509

  Zaheer, Akbar ^a   Zaheer, Srilata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alertness; Austrian Economics; Capabilities; Currency Trading; Electronic Networks; Financial Services; Network Theory; Resource Based View; Responsiveness

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ECONOMICS; FINANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

GLOBAL ELECTRONIC NETWORKS;

MARKETING;

EID: 0031274965     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.43.11.1493     Document Type: Article

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