Managing absorptive capacity stocks to improve performance: Empirical evidence from the turbulent environment of Israeli hospitals

European Management Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-25

  Lev, Sara ^a   Fiegenbaum, Avi ^b   Shoham, Aviv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Environmental competitiveness; Hospital performance; Knowledge flows and stocks; Potential and realized absorptive capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549106880     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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