Lndustry learning environments and the heterogeneity of firm performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 390-412

  Balasubramanian, Natarajan ^a   Lieberman, Marvin B ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm heterogeneity; Learning; Productivity; Rbv

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL INTENSITY; FIRM HETEROGENEITY; FIRM PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING PRODUCTIVITY; LEARNING RATES; LEARNING-BY-DOING; MANUFACTURING SECTOR; PRODUCTION FUNCTION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 77952024706     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.816     Document Type: Article

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