Building capabilities to manage strategic alliances

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 875-886

  Sluyts, Kim ^a   Matthyssens, Paul ^a,b   Martens, Rudy ^a   Streukens, Sandra ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alliance capability; Alliance management; Knowledge management; Network competence; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052269431     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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