How do firms nurture absorptive capacity?

Journal of Managerial Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 262-278

  Khoja, Faiza ^a   Maranville, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

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