Leveraging internal and external experience: Exploration, exploitation, and R&D Project performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 734-758

  Hoang, Ha ^a   Rothaermel, Frank T ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambidexterity; Biotechnology; Dynamic capabilities; Exploration and exploitation; New product development; Pharmaceutical industries

Indexed keywords

COMPETING RISKS; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; EVENT-HISTORY MODELS; EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; LEARNING EFFECTS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; PROJECT TERMINATION; THEORETICAL MODELS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77954517618     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.834     Document Type: Article

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