Friends or strangers? Firm-specific uncertainty, market uncertainty, and network partner selection

Organization Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Beckman, Christine M ^a   Haunschild, Pamela R ^b   Phillips, Damon J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliances; Interlocks; Network change; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142751139     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1040.0065     Document Type: Article

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