Resource allocations, knowledge network characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation of multinational corporations

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1376-1387

  Williams, Christopher ^a   Lee, Soo Hee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial orientation; Knowledge network; Multinational corporation; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION; KNOWLEDGE GOVERNANCE; KNOWLEDGE NETWORK; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; TWO-DIMENSION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 68949178677     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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