Pricing process as a capability: A resource-based perspective

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 615-630

  Dutta, Shantanu ^a,b   Zbaracki, Mark J ^c   Bergen, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability; Ethnography; Organizational routines; Pricing; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRY; MANAGERS; MANUFACTURE; MARKETING; SALES;

CAPABILITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES; PRICING; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 0037933256     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.323     Document Type: Article

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