Alliance partners and firm performance: Resource complementarity and status association

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 921-940

  Lin, Zhiang ^a   Yang, Haibin ^b   Arya, Bindu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Parent firm performance; Resource complementarity; Societal and network status; Status association; Strategic alliance partners

Indexed keywords

PARENT FIRM PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE COMPLEMENTARITY; SOCIETAL AND NETWORK STATUS; STATUS ASSOCIATION; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE PARTNERS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM; GAS INDUSTRY;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS;

EID: 68249158285     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.773     Document Type: Article

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