Empirical tests of optimal cognitive distance

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-302

  Wuyts, Stefan ^a   Colombo, Massimo G ^b   Dutta, Shantanu ^c   Nooteboom, Bart ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alliances; Areas of study: Economics; Biotechnology; Business; ICT; Innovation; Organization; Organizational learning; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844497133     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2004.03.019     Document Type: Article

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