Roadblocks to competitive advantage: How organizational constraints and individual decision biases hinder investments in strategic assets

Journal of High Technology Management Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-24

  Coff, Russell W ^a   Laverty, Kevin J ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Resource based theory; Technology strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346409056     PISSN: 10478310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-8310(00)00036-5     Document Type: Article

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