Moving or doing? Knowledge flow, problem solving, and change in industrial networks

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 32-40

  Andersson, Ulf ^a   Holm, Desirée Blankenburg ^a   Johanson, Martin ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change; Knowledge; Network; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547783827     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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