Competitive implications of interfirm mobility

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 691-709

  Wezel, Filippo Carlo ^a,b   Cattani, Gino ^c   Pennings, Johannes M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Interfirm mobility; Routines replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845423491     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0219     Document Type: Article

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