Relationships between knowledge, technology recipient, technology supplier, relationship characteristics and degree of inter-firm technology transfer

European Journal of Social Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 86-102

  Wahab, Sazali Abdul ^a   Rose, Raduan Che ^a   Uli, Jegak ^a   Abdullah, Haslinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Inter firm; International joint ventures; Technology transfer characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449105219     PISSN: 14502267     EISSN: 14502267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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