Technological resources and the direction of corporate diversification: toward an integration of the resource-based view and transaction cost economics

Management Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1109-1124

  Silverman, Brian S ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION; COST ECONOMICS; RESOURCE BASED VIEW; TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 0033283301     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.45.8.1109     Document Type: Article

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