How does knowledge depth moderate the performance of internal and external knowledge sourcing strategies?

Technovation

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 582-589

  Lin, Bou Wen ^a   Wu, Chia Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Alliance; Knowledge depth; Knowledge sourcing; Patents; R D

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION; ALLIANCE; KNOWLEDGE DEPTH; KNOWLEDGE SOURCING; PATENTS;

COMPETITION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77957371006     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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