Drilling for micro-foundations of human capital-based competitive advantages

Journal of Management

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1429-1443

  Coff, Russell ^a   Kryscynski, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acquisition strategic factor markets; knowledge management; resource based theory; strategic HRM

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051863351     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206310397772     Document Type: Article

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