Building alliance capability: Management techniques for superior alliance performance

Long Range Planning

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-166

  Draulans, Johan ^a   deMan, Ard Pieter ^b   Volberda, Henk W ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BUSINESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE;

EID: 0037399314     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-6301(02)00173-5     Document Type: Article

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