Experience spillovers across corporate development activities

Organization Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1195-1212

  Zollo, Maurizio ^a   Reuer, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability development; Corporate development; Learning; Mergers and acquisitions; Organizational learning; Strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649733714     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0474     Document Type: Article

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