Benefiting from network position: Firm capabilities, structural holes, and performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 809-825

  Zaheer, Akbar ^a   Bell, Geoffrey G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Innovativeness; Interfirm networks; Performance; Structural holes

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

NETWORK STRUCTURE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURAL HOLES;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 23844547376     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.482     Document Type: Article

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