The impact of a company's business strategy on its technological competence, network competence and innovation success

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 548-556

  Ritter, Thomas ^a   Gemünden, Hans Georg ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competence; Innovation success; Network; Strategy; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342263583     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(02)00320-X     Document Type: Article

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