Direct and interaction effects of top management team and board compositions on R&D investment strategy

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1081-1099

  Kor, Yasemin Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Board of directors; R D investments; Resource based theory; Top management teams; Upper echelons theory

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL; PUBLIC POLICY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AGENCY THEORY; BOARD OF DIRECTORS; R&D INVESTMENTS; RESOURCE-BASED THEORY; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS; UPPER-ECHELONS THEORY;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33750091934     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.554     Document Type: Article

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