Managerial perceptions of the competitive environment and dynamic capabilities generation

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1355-1384

  Barrales Molina, Vanesa ^a   Benitez Amado, Jose ^a   Perez Arostegui, María N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Individual perception; Learning; Managers; Organizations

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; DC PROCESS; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MENTAL MODEL; ON DYNAMICS; ORGANIZATIONS; SIMPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONS; VALUE SYSTEMS;

MANAGERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78049524232     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571011087437     Document Type: Article

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