Building Capabilities for Alliance Portfolios

Long Range Planning

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-114

  Heimeriks, Koen H ^a   Klijn, Elko ^a   Reuer, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS;

BEST PRACTICES; PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENTS; RULES OF ENGAGEMENTS; STRATEGIC ALLIANCES; THIRD PARTIES;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 60449118852     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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