International SME Alliances: The Impact of Alliance Building and Configurational Fit on Success

Long Range Planning

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-288

  Swoboda, Bernhard ^a   Meierer, Markus ^a   Foscht, Thomas ^a   Morschett, Dirk ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PARTNER SELECTION; STRATEGIC FIT;

BUILDINGS;

DECISION MAKING; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EID: 79959783076     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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