Mobilising networks to achieve strategic difference

Long Range Planning

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 591-613

  Hung, Shih Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER FIRMS;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0036977517     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-6301(02)00150-4     Document Type: Article

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