The antecedents of response strategies in strategic alliances

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1103-1133

  Tjemkes, Brian ^a   Furrer, Olivier ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Managers; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955074604     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011068806     Document Type: Article

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