Building firm capabilities through learning: The role of the alliance learning process in alliance capability and firm-level alliance success

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 981-1000

  Kale, Prashant ^a   Singh, Harbir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance capability; Alliance function; Alliance learning process; Learning and knowledge accumulation

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ALLIANCE CAPABILITY; ALLIANCE FUNCTIONS; ALLIANCE LEARNING PROCESS; ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34548435984     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.616     Document Type: Article

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