What the hare can teach the tortoise about make-buy strategies for radical innovations

Management Decision

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 670-690

  Perrons, Robert K ^a   Richards, Matthew G ^b   Platts, Ken ^c  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation; Make or buy decisions; Outsourcing; Supplier relations; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444502943     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740510597707     Document Type: Article

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