Drivers of falling interaction costs in global business networks

Competitiveness Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-28

  Walters, David ^a   Bhattacharjya, Jyotirmoyee ^a   Chapman, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business formation; Communication processes; Costs; Innovation; Value chain; Virtual organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957504164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10595421111106201     Document Type: Article

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