Contingencies within dynamic managerial capabilities: Interdependent effects of resource investment and deployment on firm performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1375-1394

  Sirmon, David G ^a   Hitt, Michael A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset orchestration; Contingency theory; Dynamic managerial capabilities; Resource deployment; Resource investment; Resource management

Indexed keywords

ASSET ORCHESTRATION; CONTINGENCY THEORY; RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT; RESOURCE INVESTMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

MANAGERS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 70350243080     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.791     Document Type: Article

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