The timing of resource development and sustainable competitive advantage

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 651-666

  Pacheco de Almeida, Gonçalo ^a   Zemsky, Peter ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Barriers to imitation; Formal foundations of strategy; Knowledge spillovers; Project management; Time based competition

Indexed keywords

BARRIERS TO IMITATION; FORMAL FOUNDATIONS OF STRATEGY; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; TIME-BASED COMPETITION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34247496759     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0684     Document Type: Article

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