Possession is nine tenths of the law: managing a firm's knowledge base in a regime of weak appropriability

International Journal of Technology Management

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 662-676

  Boisot, Max ^a,b,c,d   Griffiths, Dorothy ^a,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MBA Program

^e Management School

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPETENCES; INFORMATION SPACE; KNOWLEDGE APPROPRIATION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PARADOX OF VALUE;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 0032690569     PISSN: 02675730     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.1999.002735     Document Type: Article

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