Know-how transfer: The role of social, economic/competitive, and firm boundary factors

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 425-445

  Kachra, Ariff ^a   White, Roderick E ^b  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Embeddedness; Firm boundaries; Knowledge; Reciprocity; Social relationships

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EMBEDDEDNESS; FIRM BOUNDARIES; RECIPROCITY; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 41149137206     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.668     Document Type: Article

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